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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.


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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.



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Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.



Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.



All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.



Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.



I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.



Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.



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Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.



Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.





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