The Book Of The Poor In Spirit Quotes

#1. Our healing is in His hands".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#2. When someone harms those whom we love, we must do as we must. And I had always loved Frannie.

Lorraine Heath

#3. In fact, some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out

Fareed Zakaria

#4. Ron made a triumphant gesture with his fist and went into a raucous peal of laughter that made several timid-looking second-years over beside the window jump. A reluctant grin spread over Harry's face as he watched Ron rolling around on the hearthrug.

Anonymous

#5. Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Sometimes the news so shocks the mind that the brain suffers an electrical short. This phenomenon is known as a "psychogenic" syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.

Paul Kalanithi

#7. Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.

Briana Evigan

#8. For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.

Lord Dunsany

#9. In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception of eternal things.

John Tauler

#10. Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

Frans De Waal

#12. Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

Jeanette Winterson