"My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued."

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Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Frank Moore Cross

#Religious Quotes #Father Quotes #Men Quotes

“The ones that hurt the most always say the least.”
“The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.”
“As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.”
“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”
“I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”
“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”
“Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.”
“False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.”

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