"No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins"

-- C. J. Mahaney

#Suffering Quotes #Matter Quotes #Sin Quotes

“My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals”
“Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.”
“I think that to me, films are personal affairs. It doesn't mean that I am against other people doing things differently, but I'm talking about what I can do. So I don't feel comfortable going to a new city or a certain class of which I don't have sufficient knowledge, doing research on that, and then writing a story about it I don't think I have the ability of presenting other people on screen in that way. It makes me uncomfortable. This doesn't mean that I only want to talk about myself. I want to talk about what I know.”
“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
“We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.”
“What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?”

Source : "On Canaan’s Side". Book by Sebastian Barry, July 22, 2011.
“Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.”
“Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.”

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