"Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart."

-- Ann Voskamp

#Father Quotes #Heart Quotes #Ears Quotes

“No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.”
“When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.”

Source : "The Cribs' Gary Jarman Talks Johnny Marr Collaboration, New Album". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2009.
“What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth”
“Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”

Source : William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2107, Delphi Classics
“Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”
“The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.”
“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.”
“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”

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