"Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence."

-- Christine de Pizan

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“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
“There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.”
“Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.”
“Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned”
“My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.”

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