Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Hosea 1:4:
Then the LORD said to Hosea, 'Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.'
(NIV)
And the Lord said to him, Call his name Jezreel or God-sows, for yet a little while and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel and visit the punishment for it upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. [II Kings 10:11.](AMP)
And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
(KJV)
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Hosea 4:6:
My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. 'Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.'
(NIV)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
(AMP)
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
(KJV)
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Hosea 6:6:
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
(NIV)
For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. [Matt. 9:13; 12:7.](AMP)
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
(KJV)
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Hosea 1:2:
When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, 'Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the LORD.'
(NIV)
When the Lord first spoke with and through Hosea, the Lord said to him, Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of [her] harlotry, for the land commits great whoredom by departing from the Lord.
(AMP)
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
(KJV)
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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Hosea 11:1:
'When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.'
(NIV)
WHEN ISRAEL was a child, then I loved him and called My son out of Egypt. [Matt. 2:15.](AMP)
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
(KJV)
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