Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast.
Let there fall externally what will on the parts which can feel the effects of this fall. For those parts which have felt will complain, if they choose. But I, unless I think that what happened is an evil, am not injured. And it is in my power to think so.
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Evangelicals inherited two important traits from Pietism.
First, emotion played so large a part in the Pietists’ religious life that reason was downplayed. Since the mind could not fathom the mysteries of human destiny, feelings were left to carry the meaning of faith.
Second, Pietism assumed the existence of the institutional church. It made no frontal attacks on it. But it shifted what was essential to Christianity—the new birth and the spiritual life—from the traditional state churches to smaller fellowship groups or voluntary associations of believers.
It’s her job to be in charge, but who is she trying to fool? She went to high school and college and then…here, so what life has she lived that means she can tell us the right way to live ours? She’s always been in school.
I grit my teeth. Adults never tell you the truth about anything, anyway.
Acceptance on the shore
-"An' I— well, being with you has been so much fun... I might just be subatitute fer Hikaru but— you've done so much fer me. I love you, Yoshiki. I don't know what this feelin' is, if it's romantic love or platonic love. But no matter what, that's how I feel."—Hikaru
"I don't think anything's wrong with him, sir," he'd said, carefully. "I just think he's not—" Happy, he nearly said. But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness: there was only misery, or fear, and the absence of misery or fear, and the latter state was all he had needed or wanted. "I think he's shy," he finished.
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