"Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change."

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Source : Frederica Mathewes-Green “The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God”, Paraclete Press

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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“For me, every hour is grace.”
“The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.”
“I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.”
“All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.”
“The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.”
“Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
“If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.”
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.”

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