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Originally posted by tecoyah
The Bible (in my opinion) is a wonderful story of human morality, and should be used as any self help book should.
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think what you will about the Bible, but it is anything but a self-help book. the entire narrative of the text has an overarching theme of the futility of helping ourselves and how we must rely on the grace of God to atone for our inability to live holy lives.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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