"By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you."

-- Thomas McGuane

#Harder Quotes #Grows Quotes

“When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.”
“As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.”
“I want to elect the next president.”

Source : "The Loudest Voice in the Room". Book by Gabriel Sherman, January 14, 2014.
“As you're building a country, you have to be thinking about what works at the ground level. And women have their fingers on the pulse of the community. They know what is critical to have in the treaty to stop the war.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”
“When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.”
“What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?”
“Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.”

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