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1 " Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255 "
― Susan Howatch , Ultimate Prizes (Starbridge, #3)
2 " My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness. "
3 " The gifts of the Spirit can be recognized by their fruits. "
4 " ...never think God doesn't listen when you tell Him what you want. "
5 " If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths, and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis. "
6 " At last it occurred to me that I could not continue to sit at my desk, drink whisky and shudder at the thought of the Fordites. "
7 " I had to make myself presentable. Doggedly I dosed myself with Alka-Seltzer. "
8 " It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made.” CHARLES E. RAVEN "
9 " I vomited neatly into the corner basin. That made me feel better, and as I sluiced away the mess I made a new resolution to behave in an orderly Christian fashion. "
10 " Then I saw that all I really wanted was a room of my own lined with books, congenial work in pleasant surroundings, and a reasonable amount of civilized conversation with intelligent people. "
11 " In your distress you’re making so much noise that you wouldn’t hear a communication from God even if He were transformed into an anthropomorphic deity who could thunder instructions to you in impeccable BBC English. The way forward at this moment, I assure you, is not to thrash around making a noise. What you have to do is to listen—to listen to the silence and be calm. "