"Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty."

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Patrick White

#Honesty Quotes #Littles Quotes #Irony Quotes

“It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.”

Source : Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books
“American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.”
“If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.”

Source : Allison DuBois (2008). “Secrets of the Monarch: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Living a Better Life”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“Love can be put off, never abandoned.”
“Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook
“Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.”
“A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings us back one hundred years to a magical time in Twain's family life, revealing a house that's brimming with love and laughter, as well as the profound heartbreaks of life. A Mark Twain Christmas only deepens our understanding and respect for both the man and his work.”

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