A Quote by Maxine Kumin

To build is to dwell. — © Maxine Kumin
To build is to dwell.

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Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.
This kind of split makes me crazy, this territorializing of the holy. Here God may dwell. Here God may not dwell. It contradicts everything in my experience, which says: God dwells where I dwell. Period.
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.
Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
Don't dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God's all-sufficiency.
People who dwell in God dwell in the eternal now.
I try to dwell on the positive and not dwell on the negative as much as I can.
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
I'm imperfect. There are things in time that will bother me, but I don't dwell on them. It's another thing to dwell on it your whole day and let it bother you.
We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
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