"The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will."

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Source : "Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833".

Lemuel Haynes

#Character Quotes #Design Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.”
“That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.”

Source : 1985 The BigMan, ch.8.
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death â€“ fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
“Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.”
“We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.”

Source : "The Curse of the Good Girl". Book by Rachel Simmons, www.today.com. 2009.
“You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life”
“I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.”

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