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I Thirst

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.”

“My Dear Lord, please help me. Place me in the Center of Your Perfect Will.Adoro te devote, latens Deitas. Bread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart.Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit. Let Your presence draw me in here my senses fail.Visus cactus, gustus in te falliti. This is truth enough for me.Peto quod petivit latro paenitens. Seeing You upon the Cross, flesh and blood, I find.Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor. I see not but name You still God and Prince of Life.O memoriale mortis Domini. How I thirst to meet Your gaze gloriously revealed. After life's obscurity, let me wake to see. Beauty shining from Your Face for eternity.Amen.”

“As for clichés, they’re an illusion. When you think about it, anything could be considered a cliché. It’s when you really bring truth to something that it becomes original…which may," he smiled wryly, "itself be considered a cliché.”

“A fleeting moment of bliss filling your existence with ecstasy, only to fade with the dimming light. No, I could not believe that.”

“There is an unspoken pact between best friends that stipulates the following: To induce laughter, all you have to do is look at your partner-in-crime—even in the absence of said crime.”

“I heard the waves tumbling in a chorus of doves, inviting me to take part in their vision. A vision from Beyond.”

“He tasted Truth, a truth that he could not put into words.”

“Have you ever felt like you were caught in a maze in which nothing made sense? In which you saw Superman and the Green Goblin in the same comic strip when they really belonged in two different stories?”

“But I was caught in an hourglass of colliding dreams.”

“There is nothing more nerve-racking than waiting as someone reads your writing. The reader becomes the videographer, zooming far, far into your heart and soul, unveiling every inch and corner. The writer remains a wary observer at the mercy of the reader, clueless as to how he might react. The writer is exposed, laid bare; her innermost thoughts and feelings are revealed in a potentially scathing moment of vulnerability. I trusted Peter so fully…in a way that I could not explain. For that very reason, it mattered so immensely. To actually tell him what I knew he had already often seen in my eyes was to allow him to enter a new dimension in that world. And it mattered. It really, truly mattered.”

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Book Keywords:

catholic, eucharist, st-thomas-aquinas, inspirational, prayer, maturity, adoration

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