If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
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“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Taggle, meanwhile, made himself popular, killing rats and bringing a rabbit into camp every evening, preening in the praise - silently, thank… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in… — Hilary Winston Copy Share Image
Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more,… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“In the midst of this overwhelming sunset, the image of Hatsumi flashed into my mind, and in that moment I understood what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“I look. There it is. I feel it. The insistent pull to the heart that the hawk brings, that very old longing… — Helen MacDonald Copy Share Image
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“I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that… — Anne Hillman Copy Share Image
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“ When Your Life Looks Back, When your life looks back-- As it will, at itself, at you--what will it say? Inch… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
“Don't get entangled With what you long for or dislike. Not seeing what you long for is suffering; So also is seeing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around… — Beau Taplin Copy Share Image
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols… — Ruth Pitter Copy Share Image
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The Snow Cricket Just beyond the leaves and the white faces Of the lilies, I saw the wings Of the green snow… — Mary Oliver poet Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
“Bygones" The weatherman says heavy rain, instead it dribbles like an old man unable to urinate. In the small orbit of the… — Robert Karaszi Copy Share Image
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The sovereign quality of wilderness is the same wherever encountered… Each manifestation has an unshackled quality-each stirs untapped longings-each gives a fillip… — Harvey Broome Copy Share Image
This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“She hears the word bell, or orchard, or swallow, and she experiences a strange surprise, like the feel of a coin in… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has… — Robert Zemeckis Copy Share Image
Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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