"I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us."

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Source : Caryll Houselander (2005). “Caryll Houselander: Essential Writings”

Caryll Houselander

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“The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.”
“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
“The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. â€˜Yes, I see, dear; itâ€™s about half-way between,â€™ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.”
“Drama is what you do when you have a dream while you're awake.”
“I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.”
“I'm a really spiritual person and I've never experienced anything. In fact I'm thinking of taking this ghost tour in Philly.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.
“So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.”

Source : George Saintsbury, Foreword By Mohit K. Ray (2004). “History Of English Criticism”, p.350, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
“The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.”

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