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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Criss Jami

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When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.
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Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
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The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
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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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In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.
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Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
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People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
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To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
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Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.
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To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.
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Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
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The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
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A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.
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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
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What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.
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To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
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Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
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Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
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