"God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform."

-- John of the Cross

#Desire Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Saint Quotes

“If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.”
“When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!”
“The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.”
“Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.257, Egmont UK
“Sex is a slotmachine.”
“I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.”
“The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in It and by It. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her Divine Son... Her love for her hidden God shone in her countenance and communicated its ardor to all about her.”
“I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.”

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