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Archibald Alexander
"It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs." --
Source : Archibald Alexander (2009). “Outlines of Moral Science”, p.264, Applewood Books
Archibald Alexander
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“I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.”
Source : Source: www.songfacts.com
“It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
“What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?”
“When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.”
“To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.”
“It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.”
“He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.”
Source : William Manchester (1979). “American Caesar”
“Something I've learned over time, and trying to remind myself this week as I am back in New York and feeling pretty anxious, is that things always seem less dire when you're in the country than when you're outside. I don't exactly know why it is, except that people just have to get on with their life, so they do. And you don't have time to do anything other than keep going.”
