"Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 58), 1895.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#Recovery Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Evil Quotes

“The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.”

Source : Max Scheler (2017). “The Nature of Sympathy”, p.388, Routledge
“Be yourself, know your power, have confidence in what you have to contribute.”
“Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.”
“A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.”
“God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.”
“Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.”
“Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.”
“You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.”

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