"When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God."

-- John of Kronstadt

#Prayer Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Eye Quotes

“When she kissed him, he melted like a lump of milk chocolate.”
“Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.”
“How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.”
“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.56, VM eBooks
“I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.”
“Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product”
“The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.”
“Hindsight is an exact science.”

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