When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
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When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.
No sky is heavy if the heart be light
We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
If something can be done 80% as well by someone else, delegate!
If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
I believe we face the question: if not now, then when? And if we are grasped by this vision, we may also hear the question: If not us, then who? And if the gospel of Jesus is not the key to this task, then what is?
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The true measure _x000D_ of your character _x000D_ is what you would _x000D_ do if you were sure _x000D_ no one would ever _x000D_ find out.
We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.
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