"Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage."

-- Thomas John Barnardo

#Christian Quotes #Character Quotes #Important Quotes

“When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.”
“"The root of joy is gratefulness."”
“You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.”
“Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”

Source : Erica Bauermeister (2009). “The School of Essential Ingredients”, p.17, Penguin
“A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.”
“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub
“Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.”

Source : Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.160
“I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.”

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