Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

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There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

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The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

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God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

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