"Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it."

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Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.49

Horace Bushnell

#Calling Quotes #Praying Quotes

“Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.”
“What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.”
“The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”
“For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.”
“Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.”
“I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.”
“The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.”

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