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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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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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I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.
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When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America.
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I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.
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I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
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One time we stayed at a B&B, and there were a couple of hippies who had this nice little area and they let us sleep in their beds that they had in the back.Then the woman suggested we go out and lie on some cushions and look up at the stars and look for UFOs and she said, "You know, I do this all the time," and I was like, "Okay..." So there we are, lying there next to this amazing loch, and we're looking up in the stars and I don't really know what I was expecting, but to see some sort of metallic object.
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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...
