"Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated."

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Source : Melissa de la Cruz (2013). “Gates of Paradise: Number 7 in series”, p.88, Hachette UK

Melissa de la Cruz

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“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.”

Source : "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.
“There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.”

Source : "Carrie Newcomer: On spirituality, music and a playlist". Interview with Hannah Heinzekehr, themennonite.org. August 18, 2017.
“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

Source : Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.19, Shambhala Publications
“We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.”
“He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.”
“Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.”
“Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.”

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