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There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.


Madeleine L'Engle

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DAN BROWN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL A great ring of pure & endless light
Dazzles the darkness in my heart
And breaks apart...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of natur...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and M...
HELEN FIELDING Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work o...
A.W. TOZER The line between sacred and secular is man-made.
SARAH BESSEY We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivabl...
GEOFF DYER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don&#...
ALEX TIZON Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, becau...
ECKHART TOLLE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.
JR. TEAGUE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The signal is nothing is sacred off of Florida, and a lot of this is secretarial discretion. Interio...
RICHARD CHARTER Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU ... without the incarnation, Christianity isn't even a very good story, and most sadly, it means not...
MICHAEL SPENCER Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Inde...
ARTHUR L. HERMAN I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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DEYTH BANGER One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in ...
MICHAEL SHERMER Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible
SOTONYE ANGA When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS God became a real man, had a real birth, and had a real physical body. This is an essential point of...
HENRY HON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Ashley decided that before Madeleine even got there that she is the best person ever,
AMY ADAMS The task of the people of God is to proclaim the kingdom of God, which is a universal kingdom extend...
JOHN LAWRENCE The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Nothing is never lost, it just cannot be found. That is the definition of leap of faith.
NAGOTSY ONAVUH There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
SENECA Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the un...
WILLIAM FEATHER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of ...
BENJAMIN TUCKER Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest an...
OVID Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH This regime cannot be reformed, so there is nothing left but to oust it.
ABDEL HALIM KHADDAM Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ...
KAREN M. MCMANUS The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER Nothing is so difficult that diligence cannot master it.
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MARK TWAIN Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, ...
ALISON CROGGON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in his...
HANNAH ARENDT Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
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DENNIS PRAGER Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire
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DAN GILBERT Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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CLIFFORD TRUESDELL Dedication is the preparation to success!
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CONFUCIUS I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS

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L'PONI BALDWIN He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
There was something odd about the swaying of his tail<...
L'PONI BALDWIN When he removed his robes, you could see the hundreds of scars and bruises that shamelessly decorate...
L'PONI BALDWIN La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of pe...
MADELEINE PEYROUX Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
MADELEINE PEYROUX I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react.
MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i...
MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j...
MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ...
MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a...
MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE