"A farmer is helpless to grow grain; all he can do is provide the right conditions for the growing of grain. He cultivates the ground, he plants the seed, he waters the plants, and then the natural forces of the earth take over and up comes the grain...This is the way it is with the Spiritual Disciplines - they are a way of sowing to the Spirit... By themselves the Spiritual Disciplines can do nothing; they can only get us to the place where something can be done."

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

Richard J. Foster

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“I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.”
“The living will envy the dead.”
“Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.”

Source : Sergei Dovlatov (2011). “The Suitcase: A Novel”, p.13, Counterpoint Press
“None of us can help the things life has done to us. Theyâ€™re done before you realize it, and once theyâ€™re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what youâ€™d like to be, and youâ€™ve lost your true self forever.”

Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.”
“Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn,”
“Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper”
“I would say that it's very difficult to personally construct your gender. I think a lot of it is socially constructed. If you look at The New York Times' coverage of trans children, some of them were as young as four years old. One said, "I see my daddy in the woodshed, and that's where I'd rather be than in the kitchen." That to me doesn't ring as somebody who is trans, it rings as someone who has grown up with a narrow view.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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