"The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome."

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Source : MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.89

Mark Hopkins

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“Amy Adams is the wish your heart makesâ€¦sheâ€™s wicked good.”
“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197
“The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.”
“It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.”

Source : "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.
“Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.165, Read Books Ltd
“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.”
“If I love, there will be no hell for me.”
“All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.”

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