"There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise."

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Source : 'A Judgement in Heaven' (1913) epilogue

Francis Thompson

#Men Quotes #Labels Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.”
“I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross,”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
“One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.”

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“There is this arrogant feeling of being stronger than human. Humans are weak. They submit to their emotions, and vampires do not. Humans are very egoistic, and vampires are not.”
“I began by asking myself, â€œWhat do I want out of life?â€ And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.”
“I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?”
“Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.”

Source : Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2008). “Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God”, p.146, B&H Publishing Group

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