"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land."

Luther, Martin on servants   

"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."

Luther, Martin on brevity
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"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

Luther, Martin on truth
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"Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging."

Luther, Martin on truth   

"Christians are rare people on earth."

Luther, Martin on christians and christianity
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."

Luther, Martin on equality
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

Luther, Martin on devotions
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on belief
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"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."

Augustine, St. on burdens   

"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

Augustine, St. on understanding
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"The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."

Augustine, St. on victory   

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

Augustine, St. on adversity
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"The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."

Augustine, St. on confession   

"Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God."

Athanasius, St. on jesus christ
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

Teresa of Avila, St. on experience   

"Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."

Teresa of Avila, St. on knowledge
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"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry."

Wesley, John on haste   

"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

Wesley, John on money
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"Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason."

Wesley, John on reason   

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

Wesley, John on books - reading
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"The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion."

Wesley, John on churches   

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

Luther, Martin on death
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"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."

Wesley, John on enthusiasm   

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Bunyan, John on prayer
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"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

Pascal, Blaise on philosophers and philosophy
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"To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."

Pascal, Blaise on pleasure   

"The property of power is to protect."

Pascal, Blaise on power   

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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."

Pascal, Blaise on religion
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."

Pascal, Blaise on rest
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"Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death."

Pascal, Blaise on rest   

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

Pascal, Blaise on sin
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

Pascal, Blaise on belief
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"If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace."

Pascal, Blaise on belief
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"I have made this letter a rather long one, only because I didn't have the leisure to make it shorter."

Pascal, Blaise on wordiness   

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

Pascal, Blaise on contradiction
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"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others."

John of the Cross, St. on silence
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"Doubt is the father of invention."

Galilei, Galileo on doubt
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