Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to,… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled… — William Blake Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
IMBECILE!" the chef shouted. "Next time why don't you just put your whole HAND in the food, hey? Yes, your whole hand,… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“To delight a child, to add a new joy to the crowded miracles of childhood, is no less worth doing than to… — Gleeson White Copy Share Image
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words;… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
My beloved soul, having awakened at last into My Peace, you can return consciously and completely to your own Original Source. As… — Lex Hixon Copy Share Image
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
