#ect

The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#called #collectively #constitute #divine #flows

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing. ↗

— Sophie Swetchine

#expect #nothing #prepared

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors? ↗

— Sasha Issenberg

#elections #change

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. ↗

— Francis Scott Key

#darkness #direction #feels #find #god

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. ↗

— Peter King

#auschwitz #away #bridges #building #community

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East. ↗

— Lawrence R. Klein

#building #continuing #country #east #entire

Man thinks, God directs. ↗

— Alcuin

#god #man #thinks

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#gift #leadership #leadership

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#experience #explain #getting #i #i do