"God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.

Anselm of Canterbury

#Ability Quotes #Illiterate Quotes

“It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.”
“Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.”
“The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.”
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
“The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.”

Source : "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.
“You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.”
“There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.”
“The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.”

Source : 'The Lady's not for Burning' (1949) act 3

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