"Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof."

-- Richard Sibbes

#Love Quotes #Light Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.”

Source : 'New Fiction' no. 15, January 1978 (the 'classic formula' for a novel)
“After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.”

Source : Joseph Parker (1867). “Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on "Ecce Homo".”, p.190
“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

Source : Tony Kushner, Pierre Corneille (1994). “The illusion”
“One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.”
“All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
“As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.”

Source : Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.302, Avalon Travel
“I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?”
“I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they will hear "I love you too" back. C'mon! Spread the energy of love without expecting anything! Cowards are incapable of expressing love; it is the prerogative of the brave”

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