It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.

Anais Nin
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  1. It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

  2. Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

  3. Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

  4. Faith is to believe what you do not yet see the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

  5. Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.

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