"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Shining Quotes

“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
“Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where all growth, where all evolution, where all love must begin; with the person in the mirror.”
“To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.”
“Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012
“Connecting expands possibilities - in work and in life - for ourselves as well as for others.”
“I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones about and above them; some rested their heads upon these stones, as on a pillow, for weariness ...”

Source : "Grasmere Journal," 15 Apr. 1802 SeeWilliamWordsworth 25
“The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.”

Source : Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc
“Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.”

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