The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
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“Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.”
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