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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

— Henry Ward Beecher Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.

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When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.

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He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.

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