"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."

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Source : "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.

C. S. Lewis

#Helping Quotes #Praying Quotes #Because I Can Quotes

“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.”
“The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.”
“I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.”
“Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.”

Source : "Charlie Sheen Spills His Guts on TMZ". "TMZ Live" with Mike Walters, www.tmz.com. February 28, 2011.
“Before I found Minerva, I'd passed nights with more than my share of women." Thorne groaned. Don't. Just don't. "I've passed time with duchesses and farm girls, and it doesn't matter whether their skirts are silk or homespun. Once you get them bare--" Thorne drew up short. "If you start in on rivers of silk and alabaster orbs, I will have to hit you.”
“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”
“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”

Source : John Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.415
“Nothing, nothing, nothing is better than sex, it is what God created us to do,”

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