"Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin."

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Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

William Stringfellow

#Idols Quotes #Sin Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.”
“I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.”
“I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.”

Source : " Stumptown Girl" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. January 02, 2012.
“Godliness is practical religion.”
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.
“Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.”
“Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.”
“A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.”

Source : Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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