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Therefore unless the living pass through the difficult and futile experiences, they can never receive those things that have been reserved for them.
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And so the entrances of this world were made narrow and sorrowful and toilsome; they are few and evil, full of dangers and involved in great hardships.
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But the entrances of the greater world are broad and safe, and yield the fruit of immortality.
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Therefore unless the living pass through the difficult and futile experiences, they can never receive those things that have been reserved for them.
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Now therefore why are you disturbed, seeing that you are to perish? Why are you moved, seeing that you are mortal?
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Why have you not considered in your mind what is to come, rather than what is now present?"
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