"It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God."

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Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1820). “The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion”, p.63

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Self Quotes #Lost Quotes #Discipleship Quotes

“I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one”
“I just think that humans were created to look upward”
“It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.”

Source : Josh Bazell (2009). “Beat The Reaper”, p.29, Random House
“Civility is not not saying negative or harsh things. It is not the absence of critical analysis. It is the manner in which we are sharing this territorial freedom of political discussion. If our discourse is yelled and screamed and interrupted and patronized, that's uncivil.”
“If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.”
“Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you. Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me.”
“When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.”
“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”

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