"Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
“I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.”
“God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.”

Source : Stormie Omartian (2015). “The Power of a Praying Teen”, p.165, Harvest House Publishers
“I believe I have lots of time. I have to believe that, that it won't come back, and that that's why I'm in good hands. But I also do live my life by putting nothing off.”
“Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.”
“I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.”
“I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.”
“Once I decided football was the way for me, there was no looking back. Nothing was going to distract me.”

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