The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.
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Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.
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