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"If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything."
"Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness."
"There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy."
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
"Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years."
"Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell."
"There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart."
"Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size."
"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
"Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives."
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive."
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."
"Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!"
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."