"There are people who, when they encounter inability to understand, do not ask the Lord. But one must immediately say, "Lord, I am a sinful man and I don't understand as I should. But give me understanding, merciful One, as to how I must proceed." And the merciful Lord then inspires them as to what to do and what not to do."

-- Silouan the Athonite

#Inspirational Quotes #Christian Quotes #Religious Quotes

“I now have a plan - I haven't had a plan up until this year.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.”
“Thatâ€™s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that thereâ€™s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, Iâ€™ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. Thereâ€™s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)”
“I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.”

Source : "On the Frontier: An Interview with Esther Dyson". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.
“My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.”
“If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.”
“Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.”

Source : Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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