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Chocolate stimulates the same part of the brain that morphine acts on. For all intents and purposes, chocolate is a drug—not necessarily a bad one and not a terribly strong one, but strong enough nonetheless to keep us coming back for more.
“There is only one thing which is generally safe from plagiarism -- self-denial.”
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
― The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913
“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.”
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“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”
― Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
― Battling Unbelief: Defeating Sin with Superior Pleasure
“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
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“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
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