"Certainly I had from an early age a sense of the power and beauty of religious texts - the awesome magnitude of the Bible stories I was reading as a child. The hymns. The sermons. I can still vividly hear the sermons and the pieces of soft piano music played after them, the preacher asking if anyone wanted to come up to the altar and accept Christ as their savior."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Ayana Mathis

#Religious Quotes #Children Quotes #Reading Quotes

“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”

Source : "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.
“When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all â€” except life. We shall have found the basis of everything â€” of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small â€” except life.”

Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations‎". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.
“Meditate like Christ...He lost himself in love.”
“Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.”
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
“I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum.”
“Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.”

Source : Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.39, Penguin Books India
“Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.”

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