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"If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God."
"Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God"
"However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species."
"If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions."
"We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system."
"I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have."
"Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments."
"If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood."
"If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state."
"Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been."
"Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it."
"May Your Swords Stay Sharp!" - Lan Pendragon"
"Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong."
"Only time - whatever that may be - will tell."
"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."
"You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear."
"The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard."
"Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty."
"Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it."
"Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own."
