"God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been"

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Source : Douglas Wilson (1995). “Reforming Marriage”, p.140, Canon Press & Book Service

Douglas Wilson

“When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'”
“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”
“My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.”
“Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.”
“While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you sorting through and exploring and wondering and figuring out your thoughts.”
“I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?”
“Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.”

Source : Nancy Mitford, Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1956). “Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy”, Hamish Hamilton

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