"The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes

“It is the only happy life to live for the salvation of souls.”
“Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2001). “Never let it end: poems of a lifelong love”, Baker Pub Group
“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
“I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet as well”
“Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives the mystery of Christ and fulfills her mission of communicating it to all people.... In addition to the preaching of the message, the consummation of evangelization consists in the building up of the Church, which has no real existence without the sacramental life culminating in the Blessed Eucharist”
“The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.”
“Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.”
“I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.”

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