"What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts."

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Source : Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.219

Elias Hicks

#Encouragement Quotes #Heart Quotes #Might Quotes

“There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.”
“On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.”
“My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.”
“One does not make revolutions by halves.”
“Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.”
“I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.”

Source : Barbara Bretton (2008). “Casting Spells”, p.297, Penguin
“Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.”
“A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.”

Source : "In Memory of the Arab Prophet" by Michel Aflaq, April 1, 1943.

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