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Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!

— George Frideric Handel

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On composing the "Hallelujah Chorus" in 1741.

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Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with us.

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I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.

I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

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The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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