"perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (1983). “Mysteries of motion”, Doubleday

Hortense Calisher

#Prayer Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Spurs Quotes

“If technology is a drug â€“ and it does feel like a drug â€“ then what, precisely, are the side-effects?”
“Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.”
“Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What is life when living without the Lifemaker?”
“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

Source : Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch (2005). “Gespräche, 1963”
“Given a choice between two bald political candidates, the American people will vote for the less bald of the two.”
“The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.”
“At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.”

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