"We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love."

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Source : John Owen (1790). “An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews;: With the Preliminary Exercitations”, p.57

John Owen

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“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”

Source : Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.”
“All men are rapists and that's all they are”

Source : TheWomen's Room ch. 5 (1977)
“The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.”
“I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.”
“The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.”

Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.”

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