"Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone."

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Source : Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.54

Frederick William Robertson

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“A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time in order to see theself, or its shadow, now moving with the stream, now eddying in the currents from bank to bank of its channel, and now strenuously straining onwards in the pursuit of its chosen good.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.274, Paulist Press
“As busy as I am wherever I am, I...”
“I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.”
“To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.”
“Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.”
“A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.”

Source : Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I live to inspire girls, volunteers, Girl Scout staff and alumni”
“The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.19, Macmillan

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