"We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made."

-- Walter Brueggemann

#Prayer Quotes #Self Quotes #Yield Quotes

“A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.”
“Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.”
“I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.”
“The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.”

Source : Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr
“I played an unsympathetic part -- myself.”
“Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.”
“No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.”

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