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The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. C. S. Lewis
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers. M. F. K. Fisher
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Charlotte Bronte
It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine. Hans Urs von Balthasar
In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll. David Walliams
Nikki Sixx quote: "Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it."
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it. Nikki Sixx
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be. J. K. Rowling
Albert Meltzer quote: "...the "allies" of today would be the bureaucrats of tomorrow ..."
...the "allies" of today would be the bureaucrats of tomorrow ... Albert Meltzer
Elie Wiesel quote: "To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. Elie Wiesel
It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace. Robert Cormier
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap. Terry Prachett
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me. A. A. Milne
Maya Angelou quote: "If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would..."
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape Maya Angelou
Stephen King quote: "I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no..."
I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. Stephen King

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