"At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there...."

-- Denise Levertov

#Prayer Quotes #Spring Quotes #Flames Quotes

“There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.”

Source : Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
“Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.”
“Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.”
“Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.”
“We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.”
“There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life, and Scotland is a place where this sort of revelation often approaches. Staring into a Scottish landscape, I have often asked myself why--in spite of all appearances--bracken, rocks, man and sea are at some level one.”

Source : Neal Ascherson (2014). “Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland”, p.26, Granta Books
“I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.”

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