The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.
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Related Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open o... POPE BENEDICT XVI You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and l... THABO MBEKI Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and l... THABO MBEKI Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. POPE BENEDICT XVI It was almost immediate that we started to see Pope Benedict items and memorabilia come onto the sit... HANI DURZY Are you ready for the rapture of the church Are you ready for Heaven Our Lord Jesus Christ... DORIS IJEOMA BASIL You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many ... EUGENE KENNEDY Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS We are in very good relationships with the present pope, Benedict XVI, and I'm in the very happy pos... ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ They would be having sit-ins uptown, and we would be playing basketball at Benedict. Art had an old ... BUD CRONIN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a ha... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. CASEY STENGEL "It is understandable that you find it hard to forgive or be reconciled with the Church. In her name... POPE BENEDICT XVI There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become. THOMAS S. MONSON At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists BENJAMIN DISRAELI There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON That's certainly under review at the present time. BILL MISKELL God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living ... GEORGE HERBERT MEAD That's certainly under review at the present time. BILL MISKELL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t... JACK LONDON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti... DAVID THOMAS Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck. JOHN KUYPERS Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant cou... SRI CHINMOY A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people. ANUJ SOMANY Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is li... PETER KREEFT We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present. PJ CROWLEY At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am... PETER MANDELSON I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit ... JOHN ADAMS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. They certainly are a way to effectively present online lessons to the same class at the same time. ANN TORNBERG To him, even the momentary was momentous. G.K. CHESTERTON You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the... JAN GLIDEWELL Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing! SUJISH KANDAMPULLY Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today. SOPHOCLES We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON It is easier for Pope Benedict, who grew up in the war generation with a special knowledge of German... ABRAHAM LEHRER We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w... WILLIAM BARCLAY What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO
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BENEDICT SPINOZA Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ... BENEDICT LUCCHESI When I first read that, I personally became enraged, BENEDICT LUCCHESI We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam... BENEDICT ARNOLD Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f... BENEDICT ARNOLD Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and h... DIRK BENEDICT 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH We do not see the lens through which we look RUTH BENEDICT We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed ou... DIRK BENEDICT The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, ... BENEDICT WONG Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A lot of printing techniques started to come together in the '90s. Now the technology is really grab... BILL BENEDICT The response rate for the point-of-purchase store displays is 10 times higher than two-dimensional p... BILL BENEDICT It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm j... BENEDICT WONG One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised,... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It'... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud tha... DIRK BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests... DIRK BENEDICT That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the peop... DIRK BENEDICT I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ... DIRK BENEDICT I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pill... BENEDICT FREEDMAN I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun t... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, ... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal P... BENEDICT WONG Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV! BENEDICT WONG My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very ... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, th... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very se... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' a... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta... DIRK BENEDICT I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things... BENEDICT SPINOZA They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ... BENEDICT LUCCHESI I don't know that I owe them an apology, BENEDICT LUCCHESI 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ... DIRK BENEDICT I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p... DIRK BENEDICT In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could jus... DIRK BENEDICT From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work. DIRK BENEDICT America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. DIRK BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself ac... RUTH BENEDICT