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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
— John Keats
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
— John Keats
Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.
— Mark Twain
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
— Anonymous
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
— Robert Byrne
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
— Gregory Dickow
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
— Charles Dickens
As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, "We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God's word is exciting, so electric, so energizing-
— Elizabeth George
This is a book about seeing, about becoming more and more alive and aware, orienting ourselves around the God who I believe is the ground of our being, the electricity that lights up the whole house, the transcendent presence in our tastes, sights, and sensations of the depth and dimension and fullness of life, from joy to agony to everything else.
— Rob Bell
There is an energy in the world, a spark, an electricity that everything is plugged into. The Greeks called it zoe, the mystics call it "Spirit," and Obi-Wan called it "the Force.
— Rob Bell
Necessity, like electricity, Is in ourselves and all things, and no more Without us than within us; and we live, We of this mortal mixture, in the same law As the pure colorless intelligence Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.
— Philip James Bailey