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" The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. "

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" I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. "

" Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. "

" Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. "

" The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. "

" If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. "

" Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. "

" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "

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" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "

" Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. "

" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "

" Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. "

" Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. "

" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. "

" A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. "

" Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. "

" There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.' "

" Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. "

" Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. "

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" Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. "

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