"Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings."

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Source : Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

Phillips Brooks

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“So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and the need to come up with a completely different plan for working with substances. For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.”

Source : Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum (1987). “Warhol/Beuys/Polke”
“If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.”
“We must be free inside to make a difference outside.”

Source : Vishal Mangalwadi (2012). “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization”, p.48, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.”
“I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.”
“God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God.”

Source : Gottesfreund (im Oberland.), Rulman Merswin, Johannes Tauler (1857). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (Temp. 1340)”, p.293
“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you.”
“They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.”

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