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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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The thing that cowardice fears most is decision.
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.
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Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.
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There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.
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Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
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If you think you understand, it isn't God.
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Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility.
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