"Only the Earth can become the central axis around which world peace can be spun, for no religion is more compelling, no single nation larger, and no peoples older than the Earth itself. For that to happen, the collective human consciousness must expand enough so that our highest identification is as Earth-Humans."

-- Ilchi Lee

#Axes Quotes #World Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.”
“There are many today who believe that there are people running around this world right now who are performing greater miracles, performing miracles in greater abundance, and actually doing more incredible acts of divine healing than Jesus himself did. I canâ€™t think of any more serious delusion than that...”
“Iâ€™m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; Iâ€™m right there with our founding fathers. Iâ€™m a patriot and a Christian, and Iâ€™m moving forth with what they started. But now itâ€™s gotten to where Iâ€™m some kind of nut or Bible beater. I say, so be it. Iâ€™ll still go across the country spreading Godâ€™s Word, like Iâ€™ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. Itâ€™s what makes me happy, happy, happy.”
“Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.”
“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”

Source : André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.225, Macmillan
“I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.”
“When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.”

Source : Kate Langley Bosher (1910). “Mary Cary "frequently Martha,"”
“In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration.”

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