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The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When Jennifer was here in the summer, they were at the house most days. I would say generally that as they got older they became quieter, and though I enjoyed both, I sometimes missed the giggles and shouts. The quiet voices, just low enough for me not to hear from wherever I was, rising and failing in proportion to my distance from them, frightened me. Not that I believed they were planning or recounting anything really wicked, but there was a female seriousness about them, and it was secretive, and of course I thought: love, sex. But it was more than that: it was womanhood they were entering, the deep forest of it, and no matter how many women and men too are saying these days that there is little difference between us, the truth is that men find their way into that forest only on clearly marked trails, while women move about in it like birds. So hearing Jennifer and her friends talking so quietly, yet intensely, I wanted very much to have a wife. — Andre Dubus

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here. — Novalis

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours. — Vine Deloria Jr.

I live by the mercy of Jesus, to whom I owe everything and from whom I expect everything. — Pope John XXIII

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. — Bernard Barton

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence. — Lee S. Hawke

We are changed into the same image. But by beholding Jesus, talking of His love — Ellen G. White

I couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it. — Ayana Mathis