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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant

“Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.”
― John Piper

“Love is the most liberating freedom-loss of all.”
― Timothy Keller

“[Our physical illnesses] serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.”
― John Calvin

“Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.”
― John Newton

“Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Homilies on the First Epistle of John