Some of Your Favorite Quotes

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The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke
 

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Hmm.. I do like the quote of Saint Therese Of Lisieux.

"Don't be so sad about me; I have reached the point of not being able to suffer any more, because all suffering is sweet to me."
 
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"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil." - Marcus Aurelius
 
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I might be weird.. but I actually love broccoli.

I like it too, but there's something about the candidness of that rant that I just appreciate. :D
 
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“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (A fable retold)

That's my favorite part from the below:

“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, 'Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.'

A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
 
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I like it too, but there's something about the candidness of that rant that I just appreciate. :D

I see a little of his son in him.. although he's much better spoken.. lol.
 
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“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.”
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
 
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“I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (A fable retold)

That's my favorite part from the below:

“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, 'Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.'

A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces


Till We Have Faces is one of my favorite books
 
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Walter Marshall, The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification:
it is a true saying that believers should not act for life, but from life. They must act as those that are not procuring life by their works, but as such who have already received and derived life from Christ, and act from the power and virtue received from Him.
 
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See how grace pursues the believer! Hide under a different name, and the name gets exposed; hide behind a mask, and the mask is exposed; hide behind dishonest talk, and the talk is exposed. Grace pursues us to the very end. For when God loves a person, He chastens him. (Heb 12:6)

--from Words for Our Time: The Spiritual Words of Matthew the Poor, trans. James Helmy
 
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The higher a man lifts himself up, the farther he is from God. The lower a man humbles himself, the nearer he is to God.

--Thomas Brooks

This was very interesting and a great quote. I've thought about this a lot.
 
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