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• Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Love, God, Flames

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1957). “LOVE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN”

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• Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Fire, Energy

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• If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.

  Paul L. Maier

  Jesus, Historical, Church

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• It is through the body that everything comes to the mind. It is through and with your body that you have to reach realization of being a spark of divinity. How can we neglect the temple of the spirit?

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Mind, Realization, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Voice, Mountain, Tiny

  "Except the Lord Build the House …" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. June 1971.

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• Inside of us is a place that is all-knowing, all mighty, which is a fragment of God. Nourishing, healing elements with in us. There is a spark in each one of us.

  Wayne Dyer

  Healing, Knowing, Elements

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• You can't start a fire without a spark

  Bruce Springsteen

  Fire

  Song: Dancing in the Dark, Album: Born in the U.S.A., 1984

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• There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

  Aga Khan IV

  Determination, Motivation, Mean

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• If you're Strigoi," the boy interrupted loudly, "then why don't you have horns? My friend Jeffrey said Strigoi have horns." Dimitri's eyes fell not on the boy but on me for a moment. Again, that spark of knowing shot between us. Then, face smooth and serious, Dimitri turned to the boy and answered, "Strigoi don't have horns. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because I'm not a Strigoi.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Boys, Knowing

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

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• A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Humor, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

  Philip Sidney

  Sympathy, Affliction, Favour

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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  Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
  That's a' the learning I desire.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Nature, Teaching

  'Epistle to J. L[aprai]k' (1786) st. 13

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• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Moving, Wheels

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• Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.

  Peter Bondra

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Boys, Fire

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• If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.

  Nicky Wire

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sleep, Fire, Flames

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• Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
  The shooting stars attend thee;
  And the elves also,
  Whose little eyes glow
  Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  'The Night-Piece, to Julia'

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Believe, True Identity, Play

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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Moving, Hero, Play

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