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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit, simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justificat ion
Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.
You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.
The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.
"Well, I'm supposed to be crazy, right?" [...] "And there isn't much I wouldn't do for you. The stupider, the better."
It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.
Seth moved behind me, his presence steady and reassuring. Waiting to catch me, even though I refused to fall just yet.
And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.
I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.
Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.
I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.
The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.
On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.
I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself.
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.
Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die.
The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.
Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
What's interesting is to see us as we really are; only in this way we could arrive to the truly knowledge of one-self.
A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.
But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling.
Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.
There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.
As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.
You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.
I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.