"As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart."

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Source : Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1978). “The Fruit of Lips: Of Why Four Gospels?”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#Passion Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.”
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus
“Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.”
“It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution â€“ that is to say, an effective â€˜dictatorship of prosperity,â€™ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.”
“God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.”

Source : "Heptaméron". Book by Marguerite de Navarre, Novel XXXVIII, 1558.
“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
“The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.”
“Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.”

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