"Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls."

-- Dutch Sheets

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“I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.”
“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon Godâ€™s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”
“I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.”
“I remember my son wanted to go to bed with his cowboy boots on, and we had this fight for like an hour. Then I realized that the only good reason I had for him not to do it is because I didn't want him to. There was really no other reason. And finally I said, "OK, fine." It was a great victory for me, because I realized it doesn't really matter.”

Source : Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.
“Skills are really just circuits in your brain”
“The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.”
“Talents constitute our very essence.”
“Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.”

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