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Amongst the old prophets, Daniel is most distinct in order of time, and easiest to be understood: and therefore in those things which relate to the last times, he must be made the key to the rest.
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
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The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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God is beneficent. But the good also is beneficent. It should seem then that where the real nature of God is, there too is to be found the real nature of the good. What then is the real nature of God? Intelligence, knowledge, right reason. Here then without more ado seek the real nature of the good. For surely thou dost not seek it in a plant or in an animal that reasoneth not.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
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