We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

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Patience is passion tamed.

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

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The artist does not really create; he discovers.

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We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

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Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

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Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

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The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

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highest quality character

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

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It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

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All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

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Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin of life. It is simply a history of the process of life. With the secret cause of life evolution has nothing to do. A man, therefore, may be a materialistic evolutionist or a theistic evolutionist; that is, he may believe that the cause is some single unintelligent impersonal force, or he may believe that the cause is a wise and beneficent God.

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Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.

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Commerce is a form of warfare.

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It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

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God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

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Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

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In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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