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"this has hit me in the very first page of the preface.... inspirational and powerful book" — Feb 28, 2013 08:49PM
"this has hit me in the very first page of the preface.... inspirational and powerful book" — Feb 28, 2013 08:49PM
“Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“8 v The wind [5] blows w where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
“Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm.”
― The Mysterious Island
― The Mysterious Island
“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
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