John Mason Neale famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'
Sometimes in life, things just fall in to my lap. I'm very blessed that way.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
I have a pretty lousy voice.

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