"Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support."

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Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#Spiritual Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.”

Source : Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina
“It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.”
“I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.”
“Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.”
“Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.”

Source : Roger Williams, John Cotton, John Murton (1848). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed: And Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered”, p.9
“I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.”
“Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.”
“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”

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