"When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way â€” a person is in need, he suffers, and then somehow the other world opens up. The more you are in suffering and difficulties and are 'desperate' for God, the more He is going to come to your aid, reveal Who He is and show you the way out..."

-- Seraphim Rose

#Simple Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The bluejacket girlie rode like a clan warrior, but there was no way she'd escape. It was a private life-and-death contest that had nothing to do with him. He told himself he should ride on, grateful that the chase would keep them occupied while he took a different path. But what had he told Rebecca when she'd asked what he meant to do when he returned to the Fells? 'I'm tired of people in power picking on the weak. I'm going to help them.”
“When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.”
“The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.”
“We were filming the West Wing on the set one day in DC and Madeleine Albright comes by the set. I mean, when does that happen? You turn around and there's the former Secretary of State just sitting there. After the Clinton administration finished we were filming right outside the White House and John Podesta comes walking up while we're out there filming. Just strolling by the set - the former Chief of Staff! Things like that would happen all the time.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
“Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?”
“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”
“If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.”
“You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.”

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