"How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel."

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Source : Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan

Louise Penny

#Be Kind Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.”
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
“The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.”
“WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.”
“My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.35, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .”
“Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.”
“They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.”

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