"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."

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Source : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1866). “Outlines of Theology”, p.301

Alexandre Vinet

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“We are all welcome to come into the waters of baptism. He was baptized to witness to His Father that He would be obedient in keeping His commandments. He was baptized to show us that we should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
“I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.”
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”

Source : "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.
“Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.”
“What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.9, Penguin
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
“Tons of women would love to have sex with me. I hate the image of black men as promiscuous and unable to control themselves sexually. I don't like that image.”
“The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.”

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