Gerhard Tersteegen Quotes
He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.
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There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
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The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
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Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.
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He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.
