“Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.”

— Jonathan Edwards

Letter to Deborah Hatheway (1741), in Letters and Personal Writings (1998), edited by George S. Claghorn, Vol. 16.

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Appendix IV : Liber Samekh.
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“Just as the root feeds the tree, so humility feeds the soul. The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and whoever is fed by this sweetness produces fruit.”
Sicut radix portat arborem, sic humilitas animam. Spiritus humilitatis est super mel dulcis, quo qui regitur dulcia poma facit.

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“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”

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“Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.”

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The Loves of the Angels, The Third Angel's Story.
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“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.”

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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 163.

“Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.”

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Black-Jewish Relations: Minister Louis Farrakhan - In His Own Words https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/minister-louis-farrakhan-in-his-own-words Jewish Virtual Library (27 May 2018)

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