"If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?"

-- Jodi Picoult

#Expectations Quotes #What If Quotes #World Quotes

“Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?”
“Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.”
“If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godâ€™s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordâ€™s truth and of his divine justice.”
“I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.”
“Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”
“Libraries are not made, they grow.”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1899). “Collected Essays”
“I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.”
“Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.12, Basic Books

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