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«I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.»
«A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon»
«It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.»
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
«He has the attention span of a lightning bolt»
«Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bolt, ministered
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
«Let prayer be the key of the day, and the bolt of the night»
Author: Jean Paul Richter (Novelist) | Keywords: bolt
«Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.»
«I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ»

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