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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bounds #cannot #guardian #hear #our

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#indian #key #master #mind #native

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

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Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

Make no mistake,' He says, 'if you let me, I will make you perfect. The moment you put yourself in My hands, that is what you are in for. Nothing less, or other, than that. You have free will, and if you choose, you can push Me away. But if you do not push Me away, understand that I am going to see this job through. Whatever suffering it may cost you in your earthly life, whatever inconceivable purification it may cost you after death, whatever it costs Me, I will never rest, nor let you rest, until you are literally perfect - until my Father can say without reservation that He is well pleased with you, as He said He was well pleased with me. This I can do and will do. But I will not do anything less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#comedians #easy #generous #impressive #laughs

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#course #foreign #foreign affairs #his #humanitarian

Righteousness and love, law and grace, life and death, as well as time and eternity all intersect at the cross; displaying a divine wisdom that staggers the imagination and leads the humble heart to bow in thankful adoration. To understand the cross of Christ is to understand the heart of God toward a fallen world He wants to save. ↗

— Steven Cook

#cross #god #jesus-christ #death

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#moral #politician #severe #thing #true