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“This is beyond our power, brethren,” said the priest. “God forgives us the oaths we make in ignorance.
“But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.”
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“One should treasure those humdrum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.”
― The Dragonbone Chair
― The Dragonbone Chair
“Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”
― The Druid of Shannara
― The Druid of Shannara
“Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that’s the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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