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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
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Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
