"During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite."

-- Elizabeth of the Trinity

#Thinking Quotes #Soul Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springsâ€” Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”
“They saw their injured country's woe.”

Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria
“People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors,”

Source : "Torii Hunter, Detroit Tigers Right Fielder, Says Gay Teammate Would Make Him ‘Uncomfortable’". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.
“Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.”
“Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams”
“In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave ..." It seems to me that the same is true of the much older [geological stratigraphical] history of Europe.”
“We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.”
“London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.”

Source : Joseph Fort Newton (1922). “Preaching in London: A Diary of Anglo-American Friendship”

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