"She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her."

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Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

Denis Johnson

#Jesus Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.”
“Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.”
“Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.”
“We have to convince people that the handouts â€“ just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, thatâ€™s not a life. Thatâ€™s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,”
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.”
“Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.”
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”
“When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.”

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