"Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?"

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Source : Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.11, Regent College Publishing

Peter Forsyth

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“My health and my family are the core of my being.”
“Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.”
“Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.”

Source : Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada
“Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.”
“I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they canâ€™t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.”
“It is risky to order a boyÂ notÂ to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.”
“These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.”
“Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.”

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