Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
She had long since found peace. And Frederick, from her passionately loved bridegroom, from her worshipped young husband, had become second only to God on her list of duties and forbearances. There he hung, the second in importance, a bloodless thing bled white by her prayers. For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again longing, desiring...
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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God has definitely been good to me.
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
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God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
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You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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When Israel, of the Lord belov'd,Out of the land of bondage came,Her fathers' God before her mov'd,An awful guide in smoke and flame.
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Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world.
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence, and only in internal Silence is Baba found - in profound inner Silence. I am never silent. I speak eternally. The voice that is heard deep within the soul is My voice - the voice of inspiration, of intuition, of guidance. Through those who are receptive to this voice, I speak.
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She had long since found peace. And Frederick, from her passionately loved bridegroom, from her worshipped young husband, had become second only to God on her list of duties and forbearances. There he hung, the second in importance, a bloodless thing bled white by her prayers. For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again longing, desiring...
