An incomplete, ever-growing collection of quotes and poetry that I have enjoyed and/or been challenged by.
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While in college, John Wesley wrote to his mother and asked her for a definition of sin.  Her response:
"Whatever weakens your reason.
Whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience.
Whatever obscures your sense of God.
Whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind.
Whatever takes away your relish for spiritual things.
That to you is sin no matter how innocent it is in itself."
"God is infinite and incomprehensible, and all that is comprehensible about Him is His infinity and incomprehensibility." 
John of Damascus, 8th century
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"Freedom begins way back.  It begins not with doing what you want, but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline."
Elisabeth Elliot in "Let Me Be a Woman"
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"The power of doing anything with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance."
Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice
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"May we not use the freedom purchased by His death to celebrate the sin He died for." 
Joshua Harris
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"When peace like a river attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blessed assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part by the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul."

Horatio G. Spafford, 1873
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