But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same. Robert Penn Warren
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.
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John Henry Newman
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
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C.s. Lewis
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To...
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Jack Kerouac
Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to...
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Toni Morrison
Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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Francine Rivers
More Quotes By Robert Penn Warren
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something( All The King's Men)
Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician
And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace
