"Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves."

-- Huldrych Zwingli

#Giving Quotes #Sin Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.”
“Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail....”
“When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Donâ€™t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.”
“Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.”
“Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.”
“The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.”

Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68
“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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