Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
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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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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
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Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
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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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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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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.
