"A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep."

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C. S. Lewis

#Prayer Quotes #Mind Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true and you use.”
“I bought some powdered water, but I donâ€™t know what to add.”
“I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.”

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“Itâ€™s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel youâ€™re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you donâ€™t yet see the light.”
“'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if someone hears an evil saying, that is, one which harms him, and in his turn, he wants to repeat it, he must fight in order not to say it. Or if someone is taken advantage of and he bears it, without retaliation at all, then he is giving his life for his neighbor.”
“From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today.”
“Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'”
“Well done is better than well said.”

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