"We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies."

-- John Climacus

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“The frozen ocean... of Boston life.”
“Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.”
“There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.”
“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.”
“Do you realize itâ€™s been only a century that weâ€™ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasnâ€™t been much longer than that weâ€™ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that weâ€™ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.”
“Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.”

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