You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in…

I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long.

Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits.

I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.

Instead of the birds of the sky and beast of the field, the gods were more than men because Man needed them to be, for what could the world be if Man were the best of all creatures?

The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way.

Angels are just beyond us. They’re creatures that biology doesn’t apply to. They don’t love humanity at all. They just love God.

[His] leaving had stabbed her heart. This organ was not inclined to forgive her for vulnerability.

His mind was a tapestry constantly weaving and unweaving with the dedication of Penelope for her Odysseus.

You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.

God has planned the world too perfectly for me to doubt that everyone is where they are supposed to be.

Peace is an inner perception not an outer condition.

May power of the Holy Spirit, renew your thoughts and attitudes.

You're only a dog old fellow a dog and you've had your day But never a friend of all my friends has been truer than you alway.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done

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