"If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes."

-- T. Allen Lawson

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“The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.”
“It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people”
“The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.”
“As we build systems that are more and more complex, we make more and more subtle but very high-impact mistakes. As we use computers for more things and as we build more complex systems, this problem of unreliability and insecurity is actually getting worse, with no real sign of abating anytime soon.”
“Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.”

Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.30, Egmont UK
“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”
“If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.”
“Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like a solid and well-secured chest, the knowledge of the inspired Scriptures and the inestimable riches they contain. Those who enter into the house will never at all be able to see those treasures unless this chest is opened for them. But it does not belong to human wisdom (cf. I Cor. 2:13) ever to be able to open it, so that the riches of the Spirit deposited in it remain unknown to all who are worldly.”

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