"Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people."

-- Jennifer Worth

#People Quotes #Grace Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.”
“When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.”
“I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.”
“For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”
“Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.”
“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”

Source : Margaret Guenther (1992). “Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction”, p.12, Cowley Publications
“I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.”
“Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.”

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