An Offering Of Midnight Quotes & Sayings

.Be ye perfect is not. . .a command to do the impossible. [God] is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. — John Bevere

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it. — Martin Jacques

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus. — Mary Gordon

If i can't have what i want ... then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want — Nikki Giovanni

A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time. — Samael Aun Weor

A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be
to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born
(completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing. — Kristiane Backer

He touched her as he would touch his violin: it was how he knew to touch something that was precious and loved. — Cassandra Clare