#cram

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#among #impure #light #like #passes

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. ↗

— Scott Adams

#case #common #cramp #draw #drawing

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#california #i #myself #sacramento

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#difference #essence #sacrament #use

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#communities #cram #decided #down #going

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. ↗

— Bill Frist

#been #between #defined #entity #extend

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#average #average american #day #every #girl

I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. ↗

— Jewel

#atlantic #back #birthdays #car #cause

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education. ↗

— Barnaby C. Keeney

#anything #college #education #even #few

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life. ↗

— Alexander Schmemann

#food #sacrament #food