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C. S. Lewis quote: "The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by..."
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will. C. S. Lewis
Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our unending search, our abiding desire for immortality. Arthur Conan Doyle
Dan Simmons quote: "What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our..."
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods? Dan Simmons
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice. Marquis de Sade
And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. Doug Coupland
... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out. Jose Saramago
Julian Barnes quote: "And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach..."
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. Julian Barnes
Carl Sagan quote: "The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will..."
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. Carl Sagan
Richard G. Scott quote: "Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to..."
Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously. Richard G. Scott
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy John Piper
Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding. Jared Diamond
He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language. Angela Carter
Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture. Simon Pegg
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. Julian Barnes
Each of us is here to discover our true Self...that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form...that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiencesthat we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences. Deepak Chopra

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