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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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There is a crack in everything God has made.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

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It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new e...more

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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the ci...more

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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby...more

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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.