"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."

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Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

Goldwin Smith

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“I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.”
“The majority of what calls itself Christianity today is a circus. You've got a bunch of people chasing health, wealth, prosperity; chasing a good time, chasing the social club, chasing where the action's happening, chasing the good music and the good times. But few people are out there chasing God, and truly going hard after Him, and truly making the sacrifices in their life and cleaning their hands in such a way and working to have a pure heart that they might actually ascend that hill of the Lord and they might actually commune with God in a way that few people do and few people know about.”
“Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.”
“Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.”
“Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.”
“The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.65, BoD – Books on Demand
“What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.”

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