"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."

-- Martin Luther

#Truth Quotes #Lying Quotes #Integrity Quotes

“A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.”
“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
“There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.”
“I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who acts accordingly regardless of what clothes I'm put in.”
“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?”
“I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism”
“A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.”

Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.113, Paulist Press
“I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.”

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