"It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion?"

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Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

Gregory Palamas

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“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.60, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not sure I understand the compulsion to label things.”
“When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.”

Source : "Remembering Nora Ephron". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 27, 2012.
“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”
“I think that a musician is like a doctor, he's supposed to heal people and make them feel better.”
“There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.”
“I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.”
“The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.”

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