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Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

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Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
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If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.
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It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only to find a big bear hug coming his way.
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Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.
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Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
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Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
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Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them but because it's true.
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It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
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A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
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At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
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It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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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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Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite he becomes more independent.
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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 never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
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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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