"The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it."

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Source : Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.15, Hendrickson Publishers

Andrew Murray

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“It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.”

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing
“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”
“Itâ€™s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”
“I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.”
“They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.”

Source : Wilbur Smith (2008). “The Leopard Hunts in Darkness”, p.105, Pan Macmillan
“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
“To achieve style, begin by affecting none.”
“Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.”

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