"God always offers us a second chance in life."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Life Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Second Chance Quotes

“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.
“It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the â€œrightâ€ to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, â€œAbolish Capital Punishment,â€ also carry â€œLegalize Abortionâ€ another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, â€œThere is no contradiction involved.â€ They are right: the thesis is â€œcondemn the innocent and free the guilty.”
“The source of all light is in the eye.”
“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”

Source : Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”
“At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.”
“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”
“Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.”
“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251

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