"Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as the act of repentance is unending."

-- Symeon the New Theologian

#Christian Quotes #Humility Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I was ten,â€ I said. â€œGive me a little credit.â€ â€œTo a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respectâ€”but not credit. Or life insurance.â€ Abraham sounded amused. â€œYou are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.”
“You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?”
“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.”
“Don't be concerned with what you can't do. Work on what you can do - then count your blessings.”
“A man's mistake should not reflect on how you view yourself as a woman.”
“Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word”
“Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.”

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