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I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific. ↗

— Peter Carey

#anywhere #communities #community #ever #great

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#go #heaven #perfect #poor #possessions

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#act #expecting #father #find #his

I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#contend #convince #gone #holiness #i

By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain. Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#empathy #love #dreams

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#cause #christ #contend #conversion #ease

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#fallen #his #i #interest #long

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#ask #away #begs #everyone #give

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ↗

— Will Carleton

#fifteen #fifteen minutes #good #heaven #hell

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#happy #helping #helping people #i #learn