"Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation."

-- Richard Sibbes

#Creation Quotes #Providence Quotes

“Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.327, New Directions Publishing
“I have never known what is Arabic or English, or which one was really mine beyond any doubt. What I do know, however, is that the two have always been together in my life, one resonating in the other, sometimes ironically, sometimes nostalgically, most often each correcting, and commenting on, the other. Each can seem like my absolutely first language, but neither is.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2013). “Out Of Place: A Memoir”, p.1931, Granta Books
“I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.”
“Knot the tie and go to work, unknot the tie and go to sleep. I sleep. I dream. I wake. I sing. I get out the hammer and start knocking in the wooden pegs that affix the meaning to the landscape, the inner life to the body, the names to the things. I float too much to wander, like you, in the real world. I envy it but thatâ€™s the dealioâ€”youâ€™re a train and Iâ€™m a trainstation and when I try to guess your trajectory I end up telling my own story.”
“We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.”

Source : Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
“I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ”

Source : David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.123
“But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than touristsâ€”seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
“I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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