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Jim Elliot Quote: 'Most laws condemn the soul and ...'

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There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
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O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.


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It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.


Douglas Hofstadter
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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.


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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.


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Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.
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I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.


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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.


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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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