“The stronger the persecution, the more significant the spiritual vitality of the believers.”
“Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.”
“The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.”
“There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.”
“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”
“...persecution is normal for millions of believers around the world.”