"There is a kind of expressed love which……" — Ben Okri
"There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration."
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89 Quotes by Ben Okri
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More Adoration Quotes
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is…
— Albert Camus
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to…
— Kurt Cobain
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its…
— C.S. Lewis
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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy.…
— John Ralston Saul
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden,…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into…
— Michael Josephson
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I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically,…
— Pope John Paul II
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to…
— Richard J. Foster
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We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the…
— Pope John Paul II
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