"God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go."

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Source : Twitter post from Dec 31, 2015

Jeffrey R. Holland

#Doe Quotes #Care Quotes #Helping Quotes

“1.If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.”
“We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.”
“I read on a Kindle. I must be of the opinion that the new way to read is a pretty good way to read. It's a new way. Those of us who like the smell of books get upset but nevertheless this is the way we're going.”
“I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.”
“The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended,”
“There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.”
“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”
“Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

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