"To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless."

-- Graeme Goldsworthy

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Grace Quotes

“The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers
“Don't leave the one who loves you for the one you like because the one you like will leave you for the one they like.”
“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11
“Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.”
“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday.”
“Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.”
“I guess there are never enough books.”

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