"The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer."
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"The Human heart is an idol factory."
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"The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church."
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"We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them."
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"Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ."
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"Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict."
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"The highest honor in the church is not government but service."
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"Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice."
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"All truth is God's truth."
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"Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony."
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"Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20)."
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"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty."
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"If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal."
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"They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels."
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"Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life."
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"We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure."
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"The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us."
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"Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal."
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"There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word."
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"... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses."
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