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‘We have facts,’ they say. But facts are not everything—at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!”
“The primary duty of the modern State is the enforcement of social justice.”
― Man and the State
― Man and the State
“I do not advise you to use multiplicity of words in prayer. Many words and long discourses are often the occasions of wandering. Hold yourself in prayer before God, like a dumb or paralytic beggar at a rich man's gate.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God
“He is always near you and with you. Leave Him not alone. You would think it rude to leave a friend alone who came to visit you. Why, then, must God be neglected?”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God
“It is not enough to know God as a theory, from what we read in books or feel some fleeting motions of affection for Him brief as the wave of feeling, or glimpse of the divine that prompts them. Our faith must be alive, and we must make it so.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God:
― The Practice of the Presence of God:
“A law is not made just by the sole fact that is expresses the will of the people. An unjust law, even if it expresses the will of the people, is not law.”
― Man and the State
― Man and the State
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