"I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer."

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Source : Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “Sermons on the Psalms”

Charles Spurgeon

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“Today was a reality check. Yesterday's rally was over-exuberant.”
“All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.”
“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”
“"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."”
“Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.”
“If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.”
“Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.”

Source : "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom". Book edited by Kelsie Besaw, p. 22, 2014.
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”

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