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Ezekiel Hopkins
"Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port." --
Source : Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50
Ezekiel Hopkins
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“Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.”
“Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.”
“And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just - basic ideas which just seem to work for you over and over again.”
“Words do not pay for my dead people.”
“Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.”
Source : "House Republicans bring strange theories and wacky witnesses to climate hearings" by Kate Sheppard, grist.org. April 20, 2009.
“Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.”
“I'm a MySpace person.”
Source : "Buzzworthy Exclusive: Teyana Taylor for President!". Buzzworthy interview, www.mtv.com. February 28, 2008.
“I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de