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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

— John Flavel Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you from which He must be excluded.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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