Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

I know I am only one, but I am one, and just because I'm one should not stop me from

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather

Lives begun in deception are always lived in shadow." (Stated by Yellowfang, page 3)

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

If you are not willing to be used by God, ask God to make you willing to be willing.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

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