"One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future."

-- Shane Claiborne

#Grace Quotes #Thrones Quotes #World Quotes

“It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.112, Penguin UK
“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.”
“Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.”

Source : Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House
“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”
“Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.”
“Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.”
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
“I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.”

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