"Let us recognize this one thing: burden is the secret of prayer. If a person does not feel within him burden to pray for a particular matter he can hardly succeed in prayer. In a prayer meeting some brothers and sisters may mention a great many subjects for prayer. But if you are not touched inwardly, you cannot pray."

-- Watchman Nee

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“I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true â€” nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
“When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.”
“Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”
“albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.”
“Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf”
“My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.”
“And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.”

Source : "Larry Flynt on sex and presidents" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.
“The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.”

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