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The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; the threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; the doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; this door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

-Henry Van Dyke

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The Lintel Low Enough To Keep Out

Henry Van Dyke

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; the threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; the doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; this door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

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When god gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. people didn't like jesus. oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but jesus said, "i am the door. any man who enters must come by me. if you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." well, if omarosa manigault is the door to donald trump, well i kind of like that door. that's a pretty door. that's an intelligent door. that's a spiritually rooted door.

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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. there is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. the critics will never forgive you such. the great rudyard kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. i keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

The reason i take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? and i'm proud that i don't think i have lost touch.

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.' let us open also the doors of our very souls, that the dear ________ may enter. remember his promise: 'behold, i stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, i will come in to him' (revelation 3:20).

Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. if he doesn't automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don't get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver's seat and come round and open the car door for you. that's his job!

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