"Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears: Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands."

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Source : Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.1034, Ravenio Books

Charles Wesley

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“Since you and Crispin are now finished and I have a few hours to kill, how about that shag?â€ he asked with heavy irony. â€œBite me,â€ I sighed, gathering up the pages. He winked. â€œOf course. My second-favorite thing to do in bed.”
“I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.”
“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
“Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.”
“We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.”
“My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.”
“The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy more, yet none of them are deemed to offend the rules, which really means that they don't offend the interests of business or the pampered sensibilities of the Aga class. The media, driven by fear and advertising, are hopelessly biased towards the consumer economy and against the biosphere.”

Source : "Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern. Are we there already?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2007.

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