"Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter."

-- Philip Yancey

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“I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.”
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

Source : No Cross, No Crown (1669) See Proverbs 212
“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”
“When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.”
“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”
“This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so it takes the soul outside the sphere of mechanical or scientific explanation. It splits the world of the mind from the world of science. It is often supposed to protect our cherished free will.”
“I swim all the time at night - I've always been a water girl. It's a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I've done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, That's it.”

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