"A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks."

-- John Tesh

#People Quotes #Risk Quotes #Praying Quotes

“When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.
“I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.”
“When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.”
“He that does not repent, sins again.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.100
“There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.”
“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.”
“Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.”
“a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand”

Source : Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday”

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