"I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible."

-- Vance Havner

#Honesty Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes #Lectures Quotes

“If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.”
“The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.”
“Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.”
“We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.”
“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”

Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.290, Spiegel & Grau
“When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.”
“The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images”
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”

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