"God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124, 1895.

Girolamo Savonarola

#Prayer Quotes #Mean Quotes #Way Quotes

“Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.”
“There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.”
“We should not ask, â€˜What is wrong with the world?â€™ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, â€œWhat has happened to salt and light?”
“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”

Source : "World: Common Man's President". During campaign stops in 1961, Time, content.time.com. November 24, 1961.
“There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.”
“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
“I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.”
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be livedâ€”forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”

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