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They believe the bible is the exact word of God - Then they change the bible! Pretty presumptuous, hu huh? "I think what God meant to say. . . "

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Clever, Cleverness, Folly, Literature, Nothing, Reason

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Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

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Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Back, Past, Sometimes, Strange, Vividly

My vocation to preach on paper.

Paper, Preach, Vocation

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Appreciation, Intelligence, Mind, Superior, Understand

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Fanaticism, Governed, Imagination, Judgment

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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

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