If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
タグ: prayer

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
タグ: through, books, like, value
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
タグ: creation, problem, evil, god
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
タグ: who, hard, will, new
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
タグ: wish, purpose, believe, time
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
タグ: like, always, purpose, world
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