"To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God."

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Emmet Fox

“The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.”
“Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required....”
“To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.”

Source : Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.4, Full Moon Publications
“If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
“We're talking about really vital services to people who are already in a terrible situation and really in need of emergency services -- and there aren't alternatives.”

Source : "Congress Helps Air Travelers, Ignores Victims of Rape and Domestic Violence" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. May 6, 2013.
“People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.”
“From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.”
“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”

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