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“One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'”

Reason Might Spiritual Suffering Speak Failing Reason Why

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

Feels Made Ideas Reason Feelings Hands Doubt Failing Poet Shapes Skins Impression Reason Why No Doubt Texture Matthew

Book:Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

“Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.”

Reason Poor Poverty Rich Failing Deserve Misery Folks Reason Why Idleness

Book:Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

Source: Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.”

Source: Escape from Reason

“Treasures in heaven are more permanent. They are more satisfying. There are only two reasons why we are not as successful as we would like to be in laying up earthly treasures. One is that we sometimes get into the wrong business; and the second reason is that even though we may be in the right business, we do not always work at it effectively. Interestingly enough, these are the same reasons why we fail in laying up treasures in heaven.”

May Two Sometimes Reason Enough Heaven Business Successful Failing Treasure Permanent Reason Why Satisfying Treasures In Heaven

Author:Sterling W Sill