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“Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.”
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“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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“The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.”
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011 
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“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach...”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
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“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”
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“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
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“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”
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“If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.”
