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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

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A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.
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Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.
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Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
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When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
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Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.
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All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ.
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One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
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Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes but so is longing to be envied.
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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
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I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
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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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God tests, but he does not tempt.
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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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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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Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
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