"George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Son Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”
“Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.”
“Don't tell me what I'm not doing when I'm doing what you don't think I'm doing!”
“You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.”
“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily.”
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
“The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.”
“The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.”

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