"Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire."

-- Olivier Clement

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“Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.”
“In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”
“Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.”
“I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.”
“The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after.”
“The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.”
“Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.”

Source : William E. Woodward (1946). “George Washington: The Image and the Man”

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