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#1

“God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.”
― Erwin W. Lutzer, When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness

tags: discipleship, hypocrisy, submission

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#2

“Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

tags: hypocrisy

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#3

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
― Pythagoras

tags: darkness, death, life, light

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#4

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

tags: letting-go, life, life-lessons, memories

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#5

“[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]

If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: belief, criteria, eclipses, fulfilled-prophecies, materialism, materialistic-science, prophecies, record, science

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#6

“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: carl-sagan, cosmos, life, mystery, universe

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#7

“If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”
― Sam Harris

tags: evidence, honesty, importance, logic, paradox, reason, value

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