#mere

A live body is not only one which never gets old, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way, a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat the kind of voulentary death Christ Himself carried out. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#death

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #awake #aware #chariot #entirely

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#ago #beach #beginning #bureaucrat #forty

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#merely #prayer #simplest #turned #wish

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over. ↗

— Eric Brown

#be nice #could #course #creative #i

For tis not in mere death that men die most. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#death #die #mere #most #tis

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#debate #discussion #dissent #freedom #hammered

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#philosophy #power #without #words