When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.


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ALICE OSWALD
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
ALICE OSWALD
From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhil...
DEBRA OSWALD
One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though ...
OSWALD SPENGLER
As I can see and hear, there might be more support for softball.
DENIS OSWALD
Apparently there was some confusion at the time of the vote. It was so close that possibly a new vot...
DENIS OSWALD
We will support them in their initiatives and help them to find the way, but now it's up to them to ...
DENIS OSWALD
Every venue should be ready before the Games, leaving us enough time -- even if it's little time -- ...
DENIS OSWALD
As long as they can still compensate with work on Saturdays and Sundays I think it won't be a proble...
DENIS OSWALD
According to the world code, that laboratory should have ensured the anonymity of the samples used i...
DENIS OSWALD
Preparing for the Games requires a team effort: the group named today as Coordination Commission can...
DENIS OSWALD
The situation in Greece was very specific, very political, which explained what happened. We tried t...
DENIS OSWALD
I don't see any risk. There is too much at stake, the image of the country is at stake, and really I...
DENIS OSWALD
It's boding well for the future.
DICK OSWALD
There are people I know that just lie spellbound on the ice looking down the hole. One fellow gets o...
DICK OSWALD
The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
MARINA OSWALD
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
ALICE OSWALD
If you want to make a difference, think different
PALLE OSWALD
It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which gove...
OSWALD MOSLEY
Als it is hard for America to fight wars in the name of freedom, if those people themselves choose f...
OSWALD MOSLEY
Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union o...
OSWALD MOSLEY
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...
OSWALD SPENGLER
Sometimes in the dark of night I begin to think. And I wonder if Lee started all this violence.
MARINA OSWALD
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
Our organization hears from thousands of teens and young adults each year who are desperate for info...
ALAN CHAMBERS
Our unhappiness and conflict came not as a result of an unreceptive environment, but from believing ...
ALAN CHAMBERS
What sense do I make of it? People fall back into sin. There are all sorts of reasons why people go ...
ALAN CHAMBERS
Homosexuality is not a genetic predisposition. If someone is happy living that way, you can't force ...
ALAN CHAMBERS
We are deeply concerned about these young men and women because so many of us, as former homosexuals...
ALAN CHAMBERS
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is ...
PAUL CHAMBERS
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on...
PAUL CHAMBERS
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
ROBERT CHAMBERS
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, s...
AIDAN CHAMBERS
Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. Th...
AIDAN CHAMBERS
Jack Lynch had a vision and the club was able to create this facility based on that vision.
BILL CHAMBERS
Monte's someone that attracts a strong sense of camaraderie and appreciation for the life that he's ...
BILL CHAMBERS
Brandon has been running really well and is capable of turning in an even better time tomorrow.
BILL CHAMBERS
What they did in the rain, on a wet track today was phenomenal. I'm really happy with the team and h...
BILL CHAMBERS
That is probably the primo of all the opportunity places we could get. We will have a downtown cente...
BILL CHAMBERS
We're at the infancy stage, which is why we need to get more people involved.
BILL CHAMBERS
This is a wonderful recognition that goes to the core of what makes Annapolis Yacht Club so special....
BILL CHAMBERS
Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a ...
AIDAN CHAMBERS
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable ...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
You have to respect a player and remember that he is in high school. But if people start to abuse th...
BRUCE CHAMBERS
When we first came across this technology, we made sure there was no gray area, ... We're not going ...
BRUCE CHAMBERS
The really good thing is, if you can't make the call, you can send the message right away to ask the...
BRUCE CHAMBERS
Texting comes in addition to sending letters, ... Nothing can replace a handwritten letter checking ...
BRUCE CHAMBERS
But if colleges really are sending in the middle of the night, then I'd say that's an abuse of the s...
BRUCE CHAMBERS
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
ROBERT CHAMBERS
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more ca...
ROBERT CHAMBERS
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civiliza...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
Our award reflects a high level of confidence in TVS' product design and development skills across t...
CHRIS CHAMBERS
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a nat...
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
If it's set up in such a way that it breaks the conditionality required by the (International Moneta...
JOHN CHAMBERS
My mom loves Chad Johnson.
CHRIS CHAMBERS