"We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Effort Quotes #Praise Quotes

“Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.”
“Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?”
“He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.”

Source : Jean–Pierre Camus, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Spirit of Saint Francis De Sales”, p.505, Aeterna Press
“Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.”
“War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.”
“When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.”
“I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.”
“Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of His goodness, in other things more of His wisdom is seen, and in others more of His power. But in the work of redemption all His perfections and excellencies shine forth in their greatest glory.”

Source : Thomas Boston (1848). “The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick”, p.158

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