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“The first purpose of prayer is to know God.”
Source : Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.16, Revell
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“Key statements made by latter-day prophets are not trite clichés. They are vital counsel to us from the Lord through his prophets. We should ponder and act upon such statements.”
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“Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.”
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“There's nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.”
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“People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.”
Source : Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: a novel”, Norman Berg
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“I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have been Camus's attitude, but it was certainly not that of Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, each of whom tried to show that we can only experience the world in relation to our own projects and purposes. The world is initially one of 'equipment', said Heidegger: it is a world of 'tasks', said Sartre.”
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“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”
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“It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.”
Source : Lyall Watson (1987). “The dreams of dragons: riddles of natural history”, William Morrow & Co
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“Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.”
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“I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence”
