"If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless."

-- Gregory of Nazianzus

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“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”
“The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.”
“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.”
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“The artist as an artist must be an anarchist”
“A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272
“I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?”
“Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.”

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