"Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!"

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Source : James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16

James Hogg

#Sweet Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Dwelling Place Quotes

“Be careful dear that you donâ€™t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom”
“If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always innocent people who got hurt somewhere along the way but it was important that those who oppressed one group of people be stopped, and we don't see the animal liberation struggle being substantially different from these other struggles.... A sustained campaign against a particular industry or a particular organization has the potential to be quite effective.”
“What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.
“Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?”
“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”
“This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.â€ She smiled. â€œLancelot was a knight. Youâ€™re a viscount. The bar is higher.”
“I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I brought in. But with a director that really deals with images too, that takes the play to another level. We have to remember that theater takes place in the third dimension, and we have to take into consideration the visual aspect of the play. I think images are important for the theater. Because I do write images.”
“What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.”

Source : Karl Barth (2009). “Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press

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