"What is childlike humility? Itâ€™s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda."

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Source : Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

Todd Burpo

#Humility Quotes #Agendas Quotes #Guile Quotes

“[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.”
“I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.”
“If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.”
“I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.”
“Refuse to believe and research is a way to the truth.”
“To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.”
“I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.”
“Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.”

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