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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
- Rob Bell
Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.
- CS Lewis
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.
- DH Lawrence
You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.
- Ernest Hemingway
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
- Virginia Woolf
The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.
- Brian Tracy
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
- Brother Lawrence
While almost everything that surrounds us in life gets old and wears out, stories, like our very souls, don't age.
- Camron Wright
Sex. It's the biggest sham of all. I mean, your whole life, all you ever hear is how you're supposed to save yourself for marriage. And how it's so special. And then you finally do it. And you're like, that's it? This is what everyone's been raving about?
- Candace Bushnell
And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)
- Carl Sagan
Whatever their neurological and molecular antecedents, hallucinations feel real. They are sought out in many cultures and considered a sign of spiritual enlightenment.
- Carl Sagan
However, in part for reasons of organizational convenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in many parts of the world there is a satisfying sense of moral rectitude in rising early. The amount of sleep required for buffer dumping would then depend on how much we have both thought and experienced since the last sleep period.
- Carl Sagan