T. S. Eliot Quotes, Christian Quotes, Prayer Quotes

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.

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The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

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It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be.

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Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

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Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

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Where is the Life we lost in living?

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

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It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

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