"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all."
-Samuel Butler
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"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.“
-Samuel Butler
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"Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost."
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"Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding."
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"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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