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“Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands.”
Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.1034, Ravenio Books
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“When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.”
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“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”
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“Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?”
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“A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.”
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“Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.”
Source : "Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink". Interview with Matthew Jakubowski, www.theparisreview.org. December 8, 2014.
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“My body should only be for my husband and it's just a sacred thing,”
Source : "Interview with Kylie Bisutti: The Former Victoria's Secret Model Shares Her Stiory". Interview with Soraya Eltomey, www.theyouareproject.com. December 21, 2012.
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“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.”