"The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Stars Quotes #Moving Quotes #Sky Quotes

“What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.”
“Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"”
“The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
“It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.”
“As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.”
“Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.”

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