"The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Real Quotes #Medieval Quotes #Crosses Quotes

“Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new mannaâ€”daily drawing new strength from Christ?”
“I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.”
“I love a natural look in pictures.”
“There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.”
“The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Charge”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and june these elemental presences lived and had their being...”
“I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.”
“My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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