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“The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.”
Source : "Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty", by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.
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“I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.”
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“Dark with excessive bright.”
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“Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.”
Source : Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor
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“When I was in Kansas City everything was going well for me. My marriage was good and I was very successful in baseball but something was missing in my life. That something was Christ. Every human being is born with a little defect in his heart. That defect is a hole in the heart that can only be filled by Jesus Christ.”
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“I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”
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“If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?”
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“We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.”
Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc