"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Reality Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.”
“Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.”
“I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.”
“I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.”

Source : Song: Sorry To Myself, Album: Feast On Scraps, 2002
“I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you.”
“You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.”
“Itâ€™s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail youâ€™ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is whatâ€™s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.”
“I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.”

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