"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.“
-Leo Tolstoy
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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
-Leo Tolstoy
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"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
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"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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