Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself–you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.
I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I'll call him up. You don't have to give me strength, God; I have it myself. If he wanted me, he could get me. He knows...
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Dorothy Parker
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
God chose to save you for a purpose
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Sunday Adelaja
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
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Mark Galli
As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.
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Mark Galli
More Quotes By Thomas Hughes
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way...
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.
Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself–you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester...
Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.
The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts–he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he who can take kindly the largest allowance of these is...
