But that reminds me — and stop me if you've heard this one — of the day Jesus was watching the gates for St. Peter. Anyway, Jesus is giving him a hand one day when a man walks shuffling up to the path of Heaven. “ ‘What have you done to enter the kingdom of Heaven?’ Jesus asks him. “And the man says, ‘Well, not much really. I’m just a poor carpenter who led a quiet life. The only remarkable thing about my life was my son.’ “ ‘Your son?’ Jesus asks, getting interested. “ ‘Yes, he was quite a son, ’ the man says. ‘He went through a most unusual birth and later a great transformation. He also became quite well known throughout the world and is still loved by many today.’ “Christ looks at the man, embraces him tightly, and says ‘Father, father! ’ “And the old man hugs him back and says, ‘Pinocchio?. Daniel Wallace
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  1. You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

  2. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

  3. It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

  4. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.

  5. You’re not necessarily supposed to believe it… You’re just supposed to believe in it.

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