"Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has â€˜set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.â€™ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks."

-- Robert Farrar Capon

#Jesus Quotes #Nice Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.”
“When I finished my college education my agent said to me â€¦'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.”

Source : "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.”
“The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.”
“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”
“Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.”
“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.”

Source : Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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