"I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in."

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Source : "Elizabeth Fry: Life and Labors of the Eminent Philanthropist, Preacher and Prison Reformer".

Elizabeth Fry

#Mind Quotes #Wish Quotes #May Quotes

“It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.”
“It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.”

Source : "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer". Quoted by Bishop William F. Anderson. The New York Times, April 02, 1922.
“There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.”
“I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.”
“The beauty is the balance.”
“If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital.”
“Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair, Up the stem of the trillim, Straight up through the sky above this road right now, The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes. I try to remember that.”

Source : Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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