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" By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. "

" Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. "

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