"We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit."

-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Truth Quotes #Long Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.”
“New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.”
“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.”

Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.”
“I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.”
“I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.”
“We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.”
“The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.”

Source : Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.20, Oxford University Press on Demand

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