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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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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
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A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
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Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
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Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
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