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“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy”

“But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.”

Years Courses Taken Discipline Ocean Lifetime Accomplish Reaching Destination Sail Port Deep Ocean

Author:Earl Nightingale

“Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.”

Men Soul God Religious Forever Taken Ocean Sentiments Shells Echoes

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?”

Culture Taken Ocean Currents

Author:Ted Lowe

“I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.”

Firsts Ideas Born Taken Sea Events Movement Ocean Wave Rhythm Great Events

Author:Isadora Duncan

“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.”

Want Giving May Doe Wish Taken Sea Ocean Seeds Ships Spit Whales

Book:The Eyes of the Amaryllis

Source: The Eyes of the Amaryllis

“Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken.”

War Sides Decision Taken Impossible Greatness Prove Ocean Distance Dare Germany Emperor

Author:Wilhelm II