W. Sangster famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.
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If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.
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Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.
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The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible...19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.
-- W. Sangster
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Nothing is stronger than gentleness.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.
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Never argue with a drunk or a fool.
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The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
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Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
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