"Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people."

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Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

Gregory Palamas

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“Let's not let a few dumb things Mitt Romney said in private overshadow the many idiotic things he's said in public.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Sep 18, 2012
“Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.”

Source : Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.271, Penguin
“At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.”
“Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.”
“When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.”
“... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...”
“It may well be that you are in a bad state, but to keep company with someone worse than you would allow to see good in yourself.”
“As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.”

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