"Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me."

-- Paul Tsongas

#Faith Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else”
“Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.”
“In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.”
“There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.”
“It's not like I have a master plan or anything.”
“Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. â€œNot even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.”
“But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.”
“Even mistakes can get you one step further.”

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