"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."

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Source : Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Katharine Fry, Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.307

Elizabeth Fry

#May Quotes #Lord Quotes #Undone Quotes

“Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?”
“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.”
“It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.”
“I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?”
“We have heard that we are all missionaries. Every member ... is or ought to be a missionary; ... as members of the Church, having pledged ourselves to the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ we become missionaries. That is part of the responsibility of every member of the Church”
“Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.”
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

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