"When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition."

-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Respect Quotes #Father Quotes #Little Things Quotes

“I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.”
“America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off their land by the new Americans, and now the new Americans are being thrown off their land by the corporations.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.”

Source : "Gorbachevism" by Alexander Zinoviev, 4th article, 1988.
“Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in.”
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
“Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.”
“The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.”
“When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.”

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