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    Anne F. Elvey
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    Smell — as the matter emitted from a thing, its being sensed, and the sensory communion of smelling—links self and other, in such a way that the fragrant or odorous other gives of its essence and is t...

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    John Calvin
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    We ought to attend, first of all, to the metaphor in the verb smell, which means that Christ will be so shrewd that he will not need to learn from what he hears, or from what he sees; for by smelling ...

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    Ibn Ezra
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    The ear is sometimes deceived in hearing sounds, which are only imaginary; the eye, too, sees things in motion, which in reality are at rest; the sense of smell alone is not deceived.

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    Ambrosiaster
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    2 Corinthians 2:14-15, Ephesians 5:2, Psalm 34:8, Mark 14:3-9, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3
    The aroma of the knowledge of God comes from Christ and through Christ. The reason why Paul said “aroma” was this: Some things are recognized by their smell, even though they are invisible. God, who i...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    John 6:35, Psalm 27:4, John 4:1-26, Luke 10:38-42, Psalm 139:13-14, Ephesians 3:17-19, Psalm 63:1-4
    What is it then that I love when I love you? Not bodily beauty, and not temporal glory, not the clear shining light, lovely as it is to our eyes, not the sweet melodies of many-moded songs, nor the so...

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    Gregory the Great
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    And we, as often as we hear anything of good people, draw in as it were through our nostrils a breath of sweetness. And when Paul the Apostle said, “We are a good odor of Christ unto God,” it is plain...

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    Lisa Sharon Harper
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    Shalom is what the kingdom of God smells like.

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    Chinese Proverb
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    A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

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    Origen of Alexandria
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    Put an altar of incense in your innermost heart. Be a sweet aroma of Christ.

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    J. R. Miller
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    Prayers when they reach heaven become fragrant roses, pouring out their holy perfume before God. As from gardens of flowers blooming on the earth, fragrance rises, sweetening all the air, so from home...

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    Watchman Nee
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    The Lord longs to find a way to bless the world through those who belong to Him. Brokenness is the way of blessing, the way of fragrance, the way of fruitfulness, but it is also a path sprinkled with ...

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    Ambrose of Milan
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    Christ is the flower of Mary, who sprouted forth from a virginal womb to spread the good odor of faith throughout the whole world, as he himself said: “I am the flower of the field, and the lily of th...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Sloth is not to be confused with laziness. A slothful man may be a very busy man. He is a man who goes through the motions, who flies on automatic pilot. Like a man with a bad head cold, he has mostly...

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    E. E. Cummings
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    how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any—lifted from the no of all nothing—human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are ope...

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    Harold Best
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    Christians should be as delighted in the things of sight and sense as God is himself, when at the instant of every creational act, he declares goodness to be observable, enjoyable and usable. Of all p...

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    Bonaventure
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    When people commune with God the very sensation of life is transformed, so that they are equipped “to see what is most beautiful, to hear what is most harmonious, to smell what is most fragrant, to ta...

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    Jeremy Taylor
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    Hebrews 5:14, Isaiah 6:9-10, Proverbs 20:27, Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:18
    It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous occurrence, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sen...

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    Helen Keller
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    If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

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    Dallas Willard
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    Titus 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Proverbs 3:3-4, 1 Peter 3:4, Galatians 5:22-23
    [Beauty] “is goodness made manifest to the senses.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    The senses are not content to take second place.

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    James H. Aughey
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    Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

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    Elisabeth of Schonau
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    Cinnamon has a naturally pleasing sweetness that delights the taste. At the same time, it also has a sharp strength that inflames the palate of the one who tastes it and that becomes more piquant and ...

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    George Eliot
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    If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of sil...

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    Diane Ackerman
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    Mothers and infants do an enormous amount of touching. The first emotional comfort, touching and being touched by our mother, remains the ultimate memory of selfless love, which stays with us lifelong...

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    Mark Twain
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    There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

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    Mark Twain
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    There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

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    Alexandre Dumas
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    There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

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    John Ruskin
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    The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who...

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    Source Unknown
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    If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

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    W. B. Yeats
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    The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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