"Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself."

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Source : Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Louis Auchincloss

#Kindness Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“Success builds character, failure reveals it.”
“If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.”

Source : William A. Dembski (1999). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, Intervarsity Press
“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.”
“For preachers, clarity is a moral matter. It is not merely a question of rhetoric, but a matter of life and death.”
“Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.”
“If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it”
“I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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