How many slams in an old screen door Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day Depends how good you live em. How much love inside a friend Depends how much you give em.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

My daddy said that the first time you fall in love it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try that feeling just never goes away.

And now Im looking at you he said and youre asking me if I still want you as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before bits of myself to the Lightwoods to Isabelle and Alec but it took years to do it but Clary since the first time I saw you I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.

The heart was made to be broken.

I admit at the beginning that popular religion demotic religion the pieties of the common folk tends to sink to the lowest common denominator be it in syncretizing saints with old half-forgotten pagan godlings or in preferring the nasal whine and the revivalist shoutin to solid sense and learning regarding intellect as positively inimical to the workings of the Holy Ghost. But it is in American religious life especially Protestant American religious life that things bottom out completely.

The things good Lord that we pray for give us the grace to labour for as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating based on their actions when in fact the rewards are randomly awarded. People will latch onto any seeming success and repeat it even when they have to explain repeated failures as well. It appears practically impossible or at least very rare for humans not to be influenced by immediate experiences of concrete results. This is true even if the experiences turn out to have limited theoretical validity. The moment of surprise is not when people repeat alchemical failures but when they begin to do something else.

He splashed into the water his whole body not with the reverent attitude of prayer but with a desperate thirst he buried his head under the water and drank deep with his cheek against the cold stone of the riverbed the water tumbling over his back his calves. He drank and drank lifted his head and shoulders above the water to gasp in the evening air and then collapsed into the water again to drink as greedily as before.It was a kind of prayer though he realized as he emerged freezing cold as the water evaporated from his skin in the breeze of the dark morning.I am with you he said to the Oversoul. Ill do whatever you ask because I long for you to accomplish your purpose here.

Again Pray without ceasing 1 Thess. 517 and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.