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Caryll Houselander Quotes: We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
         

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.


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Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.



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God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.



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The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.



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There is no way of learning of God except through the adventure of our own heart.



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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.



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God is everywhere: yes, but how dim faith is, what a remote idea heaven is, in the modern world!



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