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“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

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

“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

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