"A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself."

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Source : Matthew Sharpe (2007). “Jamestown: A Novel”, p.71, Soft Skull Press

Matthew Sharpe

#Glasses Quotes

“God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.”
“The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!”
“Weâ€™re seeking â€” imperfectly at every turn, no doubt â€” an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didnâ€™t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that Godâ€™s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of Godâ€™s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.”
“It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well...”
“When you meditate, you activate cosmic energies.”

Source : James Van Praagh (2009). “Meditations with James Van Praagh”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.”
“I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.”
“This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?”

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