"Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray."

-- A. B. Simpson

#Faith Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.”
“Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.”
“He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.”
“You canâ€™t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”

Source : "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.
“The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.”
“To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.”
“If I can hear it I can kind of play it. I guess that's how I write, just how something feels.”

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