"The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 568), 1895.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#Blessing Quotes #Suffering Quotes #May Quotes

“I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.”
“Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.”
“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.”
“Apparently I couldnâ€™t even pretend to be normal.”
“I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.”
“Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.”
“Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.”
“Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.”

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