"For a Christian, our fears about the future are rooted in those places where our will differs from God's will."

-- Mark Dever

#Christian Quotes

“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
“I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?”
“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”

Source : 'To Althea, From Prison'
“Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.”
“I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.112, Vintage
“The rich get richer until the poor get educated.”
“The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1900). “A Chambermaid's Diary”

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