"Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Heart Quotes #Pride Quotes #Self Quotes

“Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.”
“Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.”
“After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist."”
“Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.”
“Fold and live to fold again.”
“At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.”
“Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.63, Open Road Media

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