"God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation."

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Source : Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

Charles Brent

#Prayer Quotes #Profound Quotes #Silence Quotes

“As expected life isn't that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It's not like that. To get something in these hands, I have to fight a horrible fight. But... there's not much time to grab the things you want with your hands. Why is that? And more importantly what is that I want?”
“But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.”
“At some point if you're a professional writer, no matter what, it always comes down to you staring at the blank page by yourself.”
“For whatever you live is life.”
“"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."”
“The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.”
“Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.”
“Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.”

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