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• In order to see Christianity, one must forget almost all the Christians.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) "Amiel's Journal" (1883)...
• Oral Roberts is not above making God an accomplice in his latest infamous ignobility, the nadir of which always seems to be record breaking.
  Every quasi-successful accomplishment is heralded with copious prayers, incantations and benedictions, not to mention the endless claims for what God does on Oral's television programs....
• Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us.
  Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• A belief is not true because it is useful. -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
• An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)...
• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
  -- Henri Frederic Amiel...
• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
  -- Henri-Frederic Amiel...
• We emphasize that we believe in change because we born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it.
  So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it....