But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

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The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

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The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

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Pray, and let God worry.

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The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

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From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

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