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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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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God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Rock Hudson was on his deathbed, going, 'It was that last fucking dick... god DAMN it, why did I suck it, WHY DID I SUCK IT!?!? I was ahead of the game, Mister! Million of dicks, never had a problem before-dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck; dick, dick, dick, suck, suck, suck. Never had a problem-IT WAS THAT LAST GODDAMN DICK!!!'
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I really miss Australia. I miss eating fish n' chips, oh my God, and Australian pies and the wonderful corner shops.
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God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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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...
