"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

-- Henry Van Dyke

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“Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).”
“In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.”
“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”
“I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams â€” give it all up to God and say, â€œLook, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest.”
“As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes.”

Source : "The Obama Triangulation: The Right, the Left and Slick Willy" by Judith Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2010.
“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.”

Source : "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day". Book by Dorothy Day, 1952.
“The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”
“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”

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