"Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark."

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Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.107, Paulist Press

John Climacus

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“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”
“The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.”
“Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.”

Source : "No-Man’s-Land" by Eula Biss, www.believermag.com. February 2008.
“Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.”
“The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.”

Source : "Party animal". www.theguardian.com. April 25, 1999.
“There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.”

Source : Interview with Carla Rupp, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“We are powerful because we have survived”

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