"My longing for truth was a single prayer."

-- Edith Stein

#Prayer Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Longing Quotes

“What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.”
“I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.”
“In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.”
“Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.”
“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Source : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.”

Source : Source: www.people.com
“You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.”

Source : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc
“...Your company...will send drugs to all the underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for it.”

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