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“Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects us from the pine needles and beetles, but it also obscures them, as well as the soft moss, fragrant soil, and the teeming complexity of nature's bed. In moments, however, we catch glints and feel the breezes of something more direct, something outside that self system.”
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“What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt by the light touch of a finger. How did she end up here, like this? How could there have been so much - so many moments, so many people and things, so many razors and pillows, timepieces and subtle coffins - without her being aware? How did her life live itself without her?”
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“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world”
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“No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.”
Source : Karl Barth (1967). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of God. 2 pts”
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“I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.”
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“If you are not ready to face opposition then you are not ready to be used by God.”
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“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.”
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“There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”
Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
