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Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.


Jack Kerouac

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ORIGEN I am so proud of my son for telling me what happened to him. I believe there could be others. And I ...
ACENCION RIVERA And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I re...
AGATHA CHRISTIE So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and...
T. D. JAKES Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
WILLIAM LAW I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
PAT NIXON If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well with...
OSWALD CHAMBERS As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.
PHILLIP E. JOHNSON I believe in doing what I am best at.
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JACKIE MARKRAY God so loved the world that He did not send a committee.
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― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
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SAINT PATRICK I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't be...
RONALD PERELMAN God strengthened me and taught me who I am in Him. He taught me that not only do I need to have fait...
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ROBERT E. LEE I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Before the foundations of the world, He loved you.
Before the fall of Eden, He loved you. Befo...
JENNIFER DUKES LEE I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
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JACK KEROUAC Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
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JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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I sa...
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JACK KEROUAC Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket
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but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
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JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
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JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
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JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
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JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
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JACK KEROUAC His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
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