"God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained."

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Source : Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346

Horace Bushnell

#Lying Quotes #World Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!”
“The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.”
“A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.”
“The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of it for another twenty or thirty years when we'll wish we had those letters never written.”

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“To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a happiness, and can be no disparagement.”
“I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.”

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“You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together - until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.”

Source : Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.207, Vintage
“When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.”

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