"In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God."

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Source : Horatius Bonar (1864). “God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious”, p.38

Horatius Bonar

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“Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.”
“One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.”
“I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.”
“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”
“How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.”

Source : W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada
“There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.”
“I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.”
“Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.”

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