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"Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property."
"God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us."
"The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work."
"One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?"
"The Golden Rule works. It really does. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Kindness begets kindness."
"Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself."
"The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates."
"One swallow alone does not make a summer."
"I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does."
"Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer."
"Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves."
"The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes."
"Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do."
"Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
"Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27."
"What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?"
"Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces."
"I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does."
"For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't."
"Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness."
