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There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

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When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is t...more

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I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confro...more

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

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The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have t...more

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Adulthood is a wonderful thing and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts. I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a...more

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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

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I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. He is forever raising up those who are brought low...more

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How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

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That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. S...more

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There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

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Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, all that fear and a...more

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There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, ...more