"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“Some people are like a defeated warrior: they accept the defeat, go to work, go back home, watch TV silently. That is like a prison. You can have a life sentence in prison and it's the same in cities.”
“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.”
“Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.”

Source : H. Emilie Cady (2014). “The Spiritual Writings Of H. Emilie Cady”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag
“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
“You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.”
“Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!”
“One should not interpret the word â€œRevolutionâ€ in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.”
“[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.”

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