"It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God."

-- Thomas Merton

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“â€¦ Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggleâ€¦”
“I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!”

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“Say the truth and shame the devil.”

Source : Hugh Latimer, George Elwes Corrie (1844). “Sermons: Edited for the Parker Society”, p.506
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
“I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.”
“That's not writing, that's typing”
“I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death”
“Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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