"...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free..."

-- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Summer Quotes #Stars Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Art is elimination of the unnecessary.”
“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”
“Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.”

Source : Michael Bruce, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1865). “The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes”, p.114
“It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.”

Source : Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”
“Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.”
“To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.”
“The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.”

Source : Marina Warner (2000). “Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form”, p.69, Univ of California Press
“Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.”

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