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“All in all, death is something like marriage.”

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine was a French novelist known for his unique literary style and profound criticism of modern society. His works often explore the absurdity and loneliness of human existence through satire and humor. more

“To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“In the Bible there are three distinctive meanings of grace; It means the mercy and active love of God; It means the winsome attractiveness of God; It means the strength of God to overcome.”

Mean Three Grace Mercy Overcoming Active God Love Distinctive Attractiveness Winsome

Author:Charles L. Allen

“To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.”

Men Return

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.”

Prayer Ability Promise Limits

Author:Edward McKendree Bounds

“No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.”

Firsts Book Nations Hours Principles Highest Ideals Sacred Rise Above Settlement Jamestown

Author:David Josiah Brewer

“Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!”

Values Holiness Abandonment

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

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