"The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all."

-- Kenneth Rexroth

#Struggle Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Issues Quotes

“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”
“Let the green girl go!”
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”

Source : Dave Ramsey (2002). “Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families”, p.30, Penguin
“Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.”
“Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.”
“The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.”
“The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.”

Source : National Book Foundation's BookUpNYC Interview, www.nationalbook.org.
“When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.”

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