"For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life."

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Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

Leland Ryken

#Spiritual Quotes #Quests Quotes #Holiness Quotes

“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”
“I was writing with different people in Nashville - whoever I could. Eddie Hinton came on the scene about 1963, and about four years later we wrote a ton of songs together. I drifted around, but Eddie and I had some cuts through the '60s and '70s. I went on the road with Kris Kristofferson in 1970.”

Source : "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 8, 2015.
“If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality.”
“The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.”

Source : Song: Lonely Heart, Album: Richard Marx
“Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.”
“I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.”
“The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.”
“Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!”

Source : 1965 In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard',19 Jul.

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