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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

William Ralph Inge

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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