"I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."

-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Jesus Quotes #Christ Quotes #Pessimist Quotes

“I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.”
“I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.”
“To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.”
“The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 559-60, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris, 305, 1922.
“I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.Â Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.Â When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.Â A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.”

Source : Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook
“If you are advocating full retirement benefits starting at 60, my reaction is the system is already 31 percent underfinanced and can not afford what it's now doing, let alone such a policy change.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Â Not everyone is worthy of your presence.”
“I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.”

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