"Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant."

-- Clarice Lispector

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“Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”
“Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.”

Source : Horatius Bonar (2017). “Follow the Lamb”, p.7, Gideon House Books
“'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is' (I Jn. 3:2). This is the perfection of adoption of sons and renewal which God bestowed on us in Christ, and of which John says in his Gospel that, 'Christ gave power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God' (Jn. 1:12-13).”
“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”
“Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.”

Source : George H. Harrison, Roger Tory Peterson (1976). “Roger Tory Peterson's Dozen Birding Hot Spots”, Simon & Schuster
“Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.”
“They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.”
“It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a womanâ€“and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.”

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