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I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.


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We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.



I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.



Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.



We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.

We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp.



What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.



I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.



All human eyes have longing in them.

All human eyes have longing in them.



God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.

God may do something silly at any time, because, like any lover, God does not reason. God is drunk with love.



I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.



According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.

According to some liberation theologians atheism is not the cause of the conflict between Christianity and Marxism, but is rather the link between them.





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It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.

It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.



You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.

You were saved when you believed in Jesus, but you were transformed when you realized He believed in you.



Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being



Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.

Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.



For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.



The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.

The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.



In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.



The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.



The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.



I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.




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