#cult

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#charm #divinely #each #faculties #gave

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#exciting #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#customs #discerned #faculties #fortunate #fortune

In France they don't think I'm difficult. ↗

— David Bailey

#france #i #think

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#difficult #difficult thing #get #i #inside

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#beautiful #difficult #easy

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#each #faculties #his #needs

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us. ↗

— Russell Banks

#divided #dividing #issues #political #political issues

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗