"God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair."

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Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#Despair Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Unfaithful Quotes

“Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.”
“Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.”

Source : "The Country Wife".
“Stop it, Mom, you're making me blush.”
“We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin
“Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.”
“The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.”
“The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.”
“Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedysâ€”there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. Itâ€™s so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.”

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