"When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly."

-- Arthur W. Pink

#Adversity Quotes #Flames Quotes #Order Quotes

“Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.284, Harvard University Press
“You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
“Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.”
“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
“Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.”
“A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.34, Cambridge University Press
“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”
“Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy”

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