"Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His."

-- Max Lucado

#Our World Quotes #World Quotes #Christ Quotes

“After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.”

Source : "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.
“It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.”

Source : James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”
“The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!”
“I imagine John Watson thinks loveâ€™s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that a disguise is always a self portrait, how true of you, the combination to your safe â€“ your measurements. But this is far more intimate. This is your heart, and you should never let it rule your head. You could have chosen any random number and walked out of here today with everything you worked for. But you just couldnâ€™t resist it, could you? Iâ€™ve always assumed that love is a dangerous disadvantage. Thank you for the final proof.”

Source : "Sherlock (TV Series) - A Scandal in Belgravia". www.imdb.com. 2012.
“It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.”
“Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.”

Source : Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.108
“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
“You never know what will be expected of you, so you just go out and play.”

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