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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .

But those who are over others should shew themselves to be such that their subjects may not blush to disclose even their secrets to them; that the little ones, vexed with the waves of temptation, may have recourse to their pastor’s heart as to a mother’s breast, and wash away the defilement they foresee to themselves from the filth of the sin that buffets them in the solace of his exhortation and in the tears of prayer.

The Book of Pastoral Rule

Saint Gregory the Great

A marriage is not a joining of two worlds, but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.

The Mystery of Marriage 20th Anniversary Edition

Mike Mason

This fact of God’s care and provision proves to all that no human condition excludes blessedness, that God may come to any person with his care and deliverance. God does sometimes help those who cannot, or perhaps just do not, help themselves. (So much for another well-known generalization!) The religious system of his day left the multitudes out, but Jesus welcomed them all into his kingdom. Anyone could come as well as any other. They still can. That is the gospel of the Beatitudes.

The Divine Conspiracy

Dallas Willard

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