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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to r...more

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these n...more

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...more

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenl...more

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and there...more

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Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course th...more

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I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...