"Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind."

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Source : Herman Bavinck (2008). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 4: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation”, p.243, Baker Books

Herman Bavinck

#Gratitude Quotes #Joy Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 30, 2012.
“While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.”
“A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.”
“In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.”
“Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.”
“Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.”
“Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.”

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