"In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said."

-- Mary Karr

#Prayer Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.”
“But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.”
“I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.”
“All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.”
“I saw David Lynchâ€™s â€œThe Elephant Manâ€ (1980) when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.”
“It's love when someone can touch you without using their hands.”
“Infuse your life with action...”
“The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.”

Source : "Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age". Book by Steven Hill, 2010.

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