"Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust."

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Source : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.438

Richard Cecil

#Humility Quotes #Dust Quotes #Way Quotes

“Death is an engineering problem.”
“Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.”
“The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.”
“When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.”
“When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.”
“I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.”
“I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.”

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