"Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul."

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Richard J. Foster

#Prayer Quotes #Soul Quotes #Siege Quotes

“This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.”
“Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.”
“I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.”

Source : Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
“Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.”
“Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.”
“On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam
“Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,â€™ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. â€˜I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.â€™ â€˜This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,â€™ Sun Chunlin said.”

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