"My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fearâ€¦ we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas."

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Source : "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life". Book by Shantideva, www.huffingtonpost.com. c. 700 AD.

Don Moen

#Prayer Quotes #Fall Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.25, Macmillan
“I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.”
“En France particulie'Â rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ideÂ es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.”
“We're far from having too much horsepower...my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.”
“That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.”
“The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.”

Source : Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK
“Observe, don't imitate.”

Source : George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, Isaac Asimov, John M. Ford (1981). “On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back”, p.13, Wildside Press LLC
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”

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