"I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work."

-- Etty Hillesum

#Determination Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.”
“One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one”

Source : "Fictional character: Marcus Licinius Crassus". "Spartacus", 1960.
“Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.”
“Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, â€œThatâ€™s radical!â€ Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives.”
“The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.”
“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
“It's hard to balance work and family.”
“You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord.”

Source : Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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