"The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer."

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Source : Speech at Queen's Hall, London, 16 July 1917

Maude Royden

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“So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple side latch. Another was strictly ornamental. Another you could open by whispering the right thing to it at the right time, which is the type of lock most humans have.”
“Mubarak was the glue that held this very leaderless and organic and very pluralistic mix of people together. Now that he's gone, there's a lot more debate and division about what happens next, which is healthy. We're essentially still under military dictatorship right now. The military rules the country. It can issue laws by decree.”
“A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.”
“I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.”
“We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.”
“Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead...”
“By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.”
“The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.”

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