"I don't believe in welfare."

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Charles Evers

#Believe Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.”
“Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.16, Broadway Books
“My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Deathâ€™s note wants to climb overâ€” but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.”
“There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.”
“It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.”
“I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was not only announcing things to my family; I was announcing it to the world. Of course, if the play had been a flop, only my family would have known.”
“Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior”

Source : Bill Porter, Red Pine (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.11, Counterpoint Press
“It's my job as governor to set a vision.”

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