"I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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“The Missional church always thinks of the long haul rather than the quick fix”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.22, Baker Books
“It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.”
“I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.”
“Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.”
“I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics
“I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Are you smelling me?â€ After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. â€œDon't tempt me,â€ he murmured.”
“We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.”

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