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The Consolation of Philosophy

by Boethius

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Ways of Worldmaking

by Nelson Goodman

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The Way of Perfection

by Teresa de Ávila

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The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

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For one is Father of us all—one doth for all provide. He gave the sun his golden beams, the moon her silver horn; He set mankind upon the earth, as stars the heavens adorn.

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Allison’s Quotes

“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.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.”
― Augustine

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“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: belief, experience, faith, judging-from-experience, religion, unseen

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“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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