"When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word."

-- John of Kronstadt

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“My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and consensus.”
“I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.”
“If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.”
“I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world”
“Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.”

Source : Speech, US Senate, 1872.
“My people's greatest need is my personal holiness”
“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”

Source : John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”
“I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.”

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