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“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.”

World Children Felt Eternal Weight Shoulders Vulnerability Weary New Beginnings Loaded Frail Fragility

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.”

Needs Firsts May God Joy Fall Felt Love You Creation Son Please Eternal Salvation Sake Dawn Limbs Your Son

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.”

Light Felt Sides Black Dark Comfort Band Eternal Gold Patience Mourning Cycles Intervals Light Dark

Book:The Lost Fleet: Relentless

Source: The Lost Fleet: Relentless

“God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.”

Persons Remember Joy Heaven Felt Simple Destiny Plans Eternal Busy Excuse Kingdoms Savior Stakes Exceed Discomfort God's Plan Sharing The Gospel

Author:Charles Stanley

“He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.”

Felt Perfect Becoming Eternal Bird Clouds Bones Flesh Dust No Fear Equilibrium Luminous Moths Hummingbirds Dragonflies

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.”

Firsts Mean Lasts Felt Space Cutting Eternal First Time Negative Breaths Victim Drowning Solidity Negative Space

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.”

Men Desire Felt Depends Mountain Eternal Errors Expected Realization Fulfillment Grain

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet.”

“Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.”

Soul Home Beautiful Remember Song Felt Wind Mountain Eternal Beats Filled Wings Caves Flutes Roaming

Author:Laini Taylor

“I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.”

World Night Felt Eternal Chaos Edges Rims Edge Of The World

Book:Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

Source: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror