"The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all."

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Source : "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 517), 1891.

Tryon Edwards

#Religious Quotes #Errors Quotes #Grace Quotes

“The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.”
“I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions.”
“Every disciple needs three types of relationships in his life. He needs a 'Paul' who can mentor him and challenge him. He needs a 'Barnabas' who can come along side and encourage him. And he needs a 'Timothy,' someone that he can pour his life into.”
“Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.”
“A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.”

Source : Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin
“Some people there's no getting over.”
“It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.”
“Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.”

Source : Source: www.newsbusters.org

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