"Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh."

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Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

Richard Baxter

#Dedication Quotes #Soul Quotes #Body Quotes

“When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.”
“As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.”
“In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics.”

Source : Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, Elena Anne Marchisotto (1995). “The Mathematical Experience: Study Edition”, p.441, Springer Science & Business Media
“I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.”
“No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.”
“Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.”
“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.”
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.”

Source : Wang Anyi (2008). “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai”, p.199, Columbia University Press

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