"If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray."

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Source : Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

Alexander Whyte

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“Branch Rickey made me a better man.”
“The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.”
“...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.”
“If we control the ball, they pay.”
“In school, they would tell you that life wouldnâ€™t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Donâ€™t. Donâ€™t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”
“Food is the place where you begin.”
“The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.”

Source : Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1939). “The Stars in Their Courses”, p.3, CUP Archive
“Why take chances? It may be nonsense, but does anybody really know? And people have certainly been fascinated by astrology for thousands of years.”

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