"The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened."

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Source : Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.23, Ignatius Press

Josef Pieper

#Christian Quotes #Eye Quotes #Reality Quotes

“..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.”
“The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.”
“The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.”

Source : Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books
“Yes," he said. "You were strong. You were brave. You were good. You mattered.”
“Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.”
“The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015
“I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.”
“Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.”

Source : Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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