"Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before."

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Source : Lynn Austin (2013). “Pilgrimage: My Journey to a Deeper Faith in the Land Where Jesus Walked”, p.19, Baker Books

Lynn Austin

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“In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.”

Source : J. Allan Hobson (2002). “The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness”, p.29, MIT Press
“Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.”
“Redd's face contorted with a sudden realization. "How could I have been so stupid?" The Cat was trying to decide if this was a rhetorical question when she roared, "It's a construct!" With a dismiissive swing of Redd's arm, Alyss and her army began to shimmer, the billon points of engery that formed them monentarily visible before exploding apart into nothing. Redd scoped the queendom with her imagination's eye. "Where are you, Alyss? Where is my dear little niece?”
“Itâ€™s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. Itâ€™s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.”
“I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's....none of us can. I hate saying no to people.”
“The Yankees would be a much better team if they signed a proven closer instead of Tanaka.”
“The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.”
“When you have a very hot single there is no reason why it can't drive album sales. People fall off and come back on. I'm looking forward to coming back on with a vengeance.”

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