"Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne."

-- A. B. Simpson

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“But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin
“The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.”

Source : John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.225
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.”
“Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.”
“Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it”
“Over the years, Iâ€™ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”
“I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams
“I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.”

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