Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is...

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Mystery and innocence are not akin

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his...

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it...

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it...

'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is...

'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is...