"I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians."

-- Samuel Marinus Zwemer

#Christian Quotes #Years Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.”
“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.”
“I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.”

Source : David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.207, Penguin
“There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.”
“He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.”
“If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.”
“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation”

Source : Thomas Gainsborough (1963). “Letters”
“Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.”

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