“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life
Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing
“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life
Dean Koontz book Forever Odd
Source: Forever Odd (2005), Chapter 21; musings of Odd Thomas
“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)
“When one door is closed, many more is open.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
Song lyrics
“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“These bigots are so inconsistent that I have never been able to follow the working of their minds”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 7.
Context: My mother was naturally a rather sensual type of woman and there is not doubt that sexual repression had driven her as nearly as possible to the borders of insanity.
My cousin Agnes had a house in Dorset Square. My mother took me to tea there one afternoon. A copy of Dr. Pascal was in the room. The word "Zola" caught my mother's eye and she made a verbal assault of hysterical fury upon her hostess. Both women shouted and screamed at each other simultaneously, amid floods of tears. Needless to say, my mother had never read a line of Zola — the name was simply a red rag to a cow.
This inconsistency, by the way, seems universal. I have known a printer object to set up "We gave them hell and Tommy", while passing unquestioned all sorts of things to which exception could quite reasonably be taken by narrow-minden imbeciles. The censor habitually passes what I, who am no puritan, consider nauseating filth, while refusing to license Oedipus Rex, which we are compelled to assimilate at school. The country is flooded with the nasty pornography of women writers, while there is an outcry against epoch-making masterpieces of philosophy like Jurgen. The salacious musical comedy goes its libidinous way rejoicing, while Ibsen and Bernard Shaw are on the black list. The fact is, of course, that the puritan has been turned by sexual repression into a sexual pervert and degenerate, so that he is insane on the subject.
“The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.”
Charles Fort (1874–1932) American writer
Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 3, part 2 at resologist.net
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1860s, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? (1860)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" in The New England Magazine, Vol. 1 (1831), p. 431.
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