"The better men know the Lord, the better may the eternal truths we learn be applied in our daily lives."

-- John Andreas Widtsoe

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“People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.”

Source : "The Ballad of Michael Crabtree - it's catchy" by Ann Killion, www.sfgate.com. January 11, 2014.
“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”
“I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.”
“The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.16
“I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.”
“Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth may be painful, may be distressing, may be destructive of happiness or makes it impossible. Religion, unlike philosophy, is under the category of the useful one. It promises happiness and says what it is necessary to do and what it is necessary to be to deserve or to obtain it. Consequently, illusion is more important than truth if it gets happiness.”
“One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.”
“The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.”

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