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When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

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A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.
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Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.
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Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.
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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
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When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.
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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
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The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
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It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
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Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
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The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
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When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
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I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
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Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.
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Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.
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Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.
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The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
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Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on
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