Lift your mind out of the dust into the sky. It is a lifelong, try-fail-and-try-again process, over and over. Keep forcing the mind back, and up. It does not come easily. The mind is lazy, very lazy, especially in spiritual things. It likes to grovel in the earth. It likes to putter with toys. It likes to be amused, excited, entertained -- ANYTHING but work and labor. But, with God's help, the mind is capable of wonderful, glorious, infinitely-joyful things. It is a marvelous device, though made of common clay. How little we use its intended powers! How we waste and degrade and abuse it with our infantile toys and prattle and buffoonery!
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God's greatest gift to us personally is Conscience. And His greatest blessing is a pure conscience, through obedience that comes by love that comes by faith.

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