To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire. - Francois Fenelon - Quotesmemo.com

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I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

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Francois Fenelon

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

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To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

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I had often heard Mentor say, that the voluptuous were never brave, and I now found by experience that it was true; for the Cyprians whose jollity had been so extravagant and tumultuous, now sunk under a sense of their danger and wept like women. I heard nothing but the screams of terror and the wailings of hopeless distress. Some lamented the loss of pleasures that were never to return; but none had presence of mind either to undertake or direct the navigation of the menaced vessel.

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We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

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There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

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I find that getting something on the screen as soon as possible really helps focus the problem for me. It helps me decide what to work on next. Because if you're just looking at that big to-do list it's like, eh, I don't know which one I should do—does it matter which one I do? But if there's something you can actually look at, even if it's just the debug output of your mailbox parser, it's like, OK, there!

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