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We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.
To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.
The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.
I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
No one to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing to disrespect because there is nothing other than you.
Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always-always-makes itself known.
Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.
When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.
The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
After you have been eating greens for 6 months, you will feel that something is missing unless you have them each day.
Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society.
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.
You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.
I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.
Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.
Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart
For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.