Samuel Roth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

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