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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. ”
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer. ”
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ”
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ”
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. ”
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ”
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ”
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. ”
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ”
Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night. ”