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“In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.”

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Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist known for his wit and humor. His works often set in the Canadian society, exploring the relationship between individuals and society. Davies' works include the 'Amos Fortune' series and the 'Crown of the North' series, which are highly appreciated by readers. more

“Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.”

Night Felt Justice Gone Saws Grace Doors Connections Mercy Statements Paradise Justify Live By Righteousness Sheer Reborn Justice Of God

Author:Martin Luther

“Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.”

Way Stills Able Behinds Difficulty Leaving Starting Coping

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.”

Heart Christian Heaven Christ Christianity Beats Finest Pulse Heart Beat Cobwebs Best Christian

Author:Ralph Cudworth

“A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.”

Heaven Conscience Glasses

Book:The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated

Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated

“The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.”

Men Together Violence Sweet Draws Golden Gentleness Twisted Beam Cords

Book:A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster, March 31. 1647

Source: A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster, March 31. 1647

“We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.”

Fruit Forbidden Propensity Forbidden Fruit

Author:Ralph Cudworth

“He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglected thing; it hath stronger confederacies, greater alliances, than sin and wickedness. It is in league with God and the universe; the whole creation smiles upon it; there is something of God in it, and therefore it must needs be a victorious and triumphant thing.”

Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27

“True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.”

Hands Gentle Flames Zeal

Author:Ralph Cudworth

“The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.”

Men Life Is Dies Love Is Security Movement He Man Conflict And Love Endless Life And Death Frightened Insecure Beauty And Love

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.”

Three Week One Day Tails Roaring Synagogue Liturgy Leopards

Author:Franz Kafka

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