"There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up."

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Source : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.343

William Jenkyn

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“The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.”
“Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.”

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“Early, as well as late, Rise with the sun, and set in the same bowers”

Source : Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA
“Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.”
“This is what I've always been interested in, trying to make timeless, functional, real clothes.”

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“Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.”
“All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.”

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