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“When the prosperous man on a dark but starlit night drives comfortably in his carriage and has the lanterns lighted, aye, then he is safe, he fears no difficulty, he carries his light with him, and it is not dark close around him.

But precisely because he has the lanterns lighted, and has a strong light close to him, precisely for this reason, he cannot see the stars. For his lights obscure the stars, which the poor peasant, driving without lights, can see gloriously in the dark but starry night.

So those deceived ones live in the temporal existence: either, occupied with the necessities of life, they are too busy to avail themselves of the view, or in their prosperity and good days they have, as it were, lanterns lighted, and close about them everything is so satisfactory, so pleasant, so comfortable — but the view is lacking, the prospect, the view of the stars.”

- ”Desiring God’, John Piper

“Youuuu had a daaaaate where Saaaarah madeee you diiiiinner!” Ern sings meanwhile in a deep and warbling voice, roughly to the tune of You Raise Me Up. “You haaaaad a daaaaate, and nowwww she wants some sexxxxx …”

“While my friends were out drinking rum and Cokes at Phi Delta Theta parties and pinning on mum’s corsages, I sat in the study parlor and wrote for hours – mostly term papers but also short stories, bad poetry, episodes ofDr. Kildare, Pall Mall jingles, letters of complaint, ransom notes, love letters to boys I’d seen in class but hadn’t had the nerve to speak to, all of which I never mailed.

Sure, I dreamed of having football dates, but my real dream was that one day I would write something that people would actually read.” 

- Eugenia Phelan in The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Music is something that I can’t imagine living without, and though it means more to me than the world itself, there is something that weighs significantly heavier on the scale of all things valuable and important in my life, that being my relationship with Jesus Christ.

I am completely and utterly bereft of speech at how the Lord has chosen to use music in my life and what I do as Owl City.

- Adam Young | Q&A with Christianity Today

“People who should be there for her and aren’t are often given the cold shoulder—her way of informing them that she’s miffed at them.

Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps [after an absence due to miscarriage]. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing “MY BABY DIED”.

Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat’s eyes again and carefully signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human. (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears.)

Kat later remarked that that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.”

- researcher Roger Fouts, on sign-language-educated chimp Washoe

“Beauty? Let me tell you something, being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.”

- Halle Berry

Source: gloryandus