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Oswald Chambers quote: "The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but..."
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. Oswald Chambers
There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts, --I and the abyss. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him? John Piper
We are the dead,' he said.'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically.'Not physically. Six months, a year? five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So longs as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.''Oh, rubbish! Which would you sooner sleep with, me or a skeleton? Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling:... George Orwell
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail."
Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail. Kurt Vonnegut
A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowingso much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yetmore afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to seehow beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them--and whatpeople hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at themwith admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. Tome they are beautiful terrors. George MacDonald
There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the Great master of the Universe. He rules over all, but He also will listen to your prayers as His daughter and hear you as you speak with Him. He will answer your prayers. He will not leave you alone. Gordon B. Hinckley
I was tired enough to sleep, but I fought against the weariness. I wasn't going to miss a second of the time I had with him. Now and then, as he talked with Alice, he would lean down suddenly and kiss mehis glass-smooth lips brushing against my hair, my forehead, the tip of my nose. Each time it was like an electric shock to my long dormant heart. The sound of its beating seemed to fill the entire room. It was heavenright smack in the middle of hell. Stephenie Meyer
Henri Bergson thought the principal function of the brain was to filter out most of reality so that we could focus on the tasks of earthly life,” he said. “When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth. William Peter Blatty
...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. Jodi Picoult
Milan Kundera quote: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but..."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone Milan Kundera
Margaret Atwood quote: "I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it..."
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. Margaret Atwood
The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and stew given from the goodness of a stranger's heart. But that was all there was of comfort, and the salt air had turned from cold to warm in the passing of a life, an afternoon. Peter Carey
You are going to perform a virtuous deed, but you don't even believe in virtue--that's what makes you angry and torments you, that's why you're so vindictive. Fyodor Dostoevsky
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. Dennis Prager

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