"I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith."

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Source : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

Marlo Morgan

#Faith Quotes #Found Quotes

“People turned around and came back to watch. An enormous crowd formed. Ampol Oil took films. When we left Australia, we also left our boards for the Aussies. Those films were shown all over the country to different clubs. The films and our boards became the basis for the modern surfboard movement in Australia.”

Source : Greg Noll, Andrea Gabbard (1989). “Da Bull: Life Over the Edge”, p.71, North Atlantic Books
“AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.”

Source : Siegbert Tarrasch (1960). “Best Games of Chess”, Dover Publications
“Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.”
“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”
“So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.”
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
“A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer.”

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