Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky. DEJAN STOJANOVIC Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note. GUSTAV MAHLER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Christ is the core of my child's curriculum. TAMARA L. CHILVER The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for ... TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, ... WILLIAM LAW The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough whe... ARVO PART Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON I'd be willing to bet that the notion of the end of time is more common today in the secular world t... UMBERTO ECO The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the ... DAVID A. BEDNAR His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion l... JONATHAN EDWARDS The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another.... PREM PRAKASH It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Everywhere, even in the blackest abyss, he believed one might witness the divine. The shadows and co... EOWYN IVEY O monstrous world! Take note, take note, o world,To be direct and honest is not safe! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted ... YO-YO MA All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and fo... SHARON OLDS Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID I feel good the file is closed, ... There are things here and there which I will note. EZER WEIZMAN There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can sati... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have His way, come ... C.S. LEWIS If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts a... FIDEL CASTRO The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. STEVE WOZNIAK You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Try to read or send a love note everyday. Love is the most powerful force there is in this world and... JK ZANY Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f... WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f... BLISS CARMAN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ,i>Since the Holy Spirit Gifts men and women alike, women should bel allowed to lead in the manne... ALAN GARRETT In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, ... DEBASISH MRIDHA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be? JACK KEROUAC There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of... ELISABETH ELLIOT It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end a... DANIEL BARENBOIM Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th... SIR THOMAS BROWNE Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than th... SIR THOMAS BROWNE It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better? DAN HICKS There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of. JOHN BUNYAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note
which Cupid strikes, far sweeter th... SIR THOMAS BROWNE Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, ... WILLIAM LAW Every single note on this album is there for a reason. VANESSA CARLTON We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi... WILLIAM LAW Write your dreams in journal,note book, card or on a cork. When you pen down your dreams, an a inner... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A rise in the 10-year Treasury note is leading investors to flee from Brazil, which is more risky. ALEXANDRE VASARHELYI I was telling the guys that I felt like a rookie all over again, ... It's just a whole new atmospher... DAVID PATTEN Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at... RAVI ZACHARIAS It is important to note that releases like this are used uniformly in the American workplace in conn... BILL MELLANDER There is a whole world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which ... HENRY DRUMMOND In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA They could play an endless game of hide-and -seek in so many rooms and up and down the halls that in... EUDORA WELTY Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here ... C.G. JUNG Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I wil... DANIEL BARENBOIM The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it. KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp... BOB MOAWAD The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL James has become, in effect, an 'apostle' of the free market, selling Third World governments a visi... JOAN HOLDEN Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi... WILLIAM LAW I do not have to make the Gospel relevant; it is always relevant in any part of the world . . .... BILLY GRAHAM The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no s... HALFORD E. LUCCOCK The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat ... WYNTON MARSALIS 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 It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is tha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this ... PIET MONDRIAN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living DAVID RAKOFF
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And fast thy soul is fleeting
... PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Benjamin Franklin performed a beautiful experiment using surfactants: on a pond at Clapham Common, h... PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as
diligently as I have served the king,... PIERRE DE BOURDEILLES ("BRANTOME") Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bulle... PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Usually a fiber, after being dipped in a liquid, shows a string of droplets, and thus, for some time... PIERRE-GILLES DE GENNES Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945 Come to the Bible, not to study the hi... JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to re... JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ... MICHEL DE SAINT-PIERRE What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous. PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save wh... PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark prof... PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe th... PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust? PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of ... PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal... PIERRE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Siamo sinceri: noi nei nostri rapporti, tanto freddi quanto facili, chiamiamo felicità ciò che app... LACLOS, PIERRE CHODERLOS DE Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things.
[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, n... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin... PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS That which is not worth speaking they sing.
[Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Floria... JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. JEAN PIERRE CLARIS DE FLORIAN Everything ends with songs.
[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS