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Robert Barclay
"He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?" --
Source : Robert Barclay, George Keith (1831). “Truth Triumphant Through the Spiritual Warfare, Christian Labours, and Writings of that Able and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Robert Barclay,: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life”, p.15
Robert Barclay
#Spiritual Quotes
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#Mean Quotes
“In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.”
“You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.”
“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
Source : Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.203, Pan Macmillan
“The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.”
“Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?”
“The form is always the measure of the obsession.”
“I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?”
“In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.”