#ray

The color of truth is gray. ↗

— Andre Gide

#gray #truth #truth is

I want you to stay with me,” he said. “And that’s the problem. Every time you leave me, I need you a little bit more. ↗

— Karina Halle

#experience

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#gray #hair #heart #knows

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#depended #everything #god #pray #though

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#embrace #music #only #prayer #sexual

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

#how #i #know #learned #much

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#astray #experience #gone #good #reach

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#answered prayers #more #over #prayers #shed

Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. ↗

— Frankie Avalon

#bucks #inn #jersey #me #murray

Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them. ↗

— Silas House

#prayer #trees #nature