The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. - Blaise Pascal

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. . . There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.

Blaise Pascal

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

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Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

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