#ear

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#become #change #claus #domesticated #god

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#got #heart #just #legs #place

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#blows #down #fast #goes #hear

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#applies #body #cannot #fail #fear

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. ↗

— Sholem Asch

#country #experience #far #illness #into

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. ↗

— Edwin Arnold

#deliverance #each #his #makes #man

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#bright #earth #firmament #gladly #him

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#better #bring #child #fear #fitter

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. ↗

— Richie Ashburn

#had #i #i wish #known #late

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#dear #freedoms #gather #guide #hold