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    J.C. Ryle
    “Hell is truth known too late.”
    ― J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion
    tags: hell, knowledge, truth
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    J.C. Ryle
    “Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.”
    ― J.C. Ryle
    tags: thoughts-for-young-men
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    J.C. Ryle
    “My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”
    ― J.C. Ryle
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    J.C. Ryle
    “One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the
    world.”
    ― J.C. Ryle
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    Charles Dickens
    “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    ― Théophile Gautier
    tags: misattributed-to-einstein
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    James Madison
    “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: entitlement, government-spending
    74 likes

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    Abraham Lincoln
    “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: entitlement, inherited-wealth
    377 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92182 likes

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    Martin Luther
    “If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
    ― Martin Luther
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    Martin Luther
    “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
    ― Martin Luther
    tags: prayer, religion
    459 likes

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    Jonathan Edwards
    “Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
    ― Jonathan Edwards
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    tags: christianity, nature
    303 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
    171 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
    ― Emmanuel Kant
    tags: animal-rights, cruelty, judge, morality, treatment
    1004 likes

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    Eugene H. Peterson
    “The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.”
    ― Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir
    tags: inspirational
    31 likes

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    Eugene H. Peterson
    “Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.”
    ― Eugene Peterson
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
    31368 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    1097 likes

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    Zaman Ali
    “Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilizations.”
    ― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good
    tags: books, change, civilization, create, destroy, power
    96 likes

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    Augustine of Hippo
    “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
    1147 likes

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    Plato
    “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
    524 likes

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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
    16269 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Jack London
    “The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.”
    ― Jack London, White Fang
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    Evelyn Waugh
    “When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.”
    ― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
    tags: culture, desperation, input
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
    8675 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
    31526 likes



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