"There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes."

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Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

Frank Laubach

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“I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.”
“Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.”

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“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.”
“When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isnâ€™t any reclaiming it or revising it.”
“Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.”
“I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half.”
“The word "dis-aster," in fact, means "bad star."”

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