Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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Madame de Stael
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About Madame de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She was the daughter of banker and French finance minister Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, a respected salonist and writer. Throughout her life, she held a moderate stance during the tumultuous periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era, persisting until th…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Madame de StaelScientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.