"God sweetens outward pain with inward peace."

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Source : Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.22, Gideon House Books

Thomas Watson

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“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's magazines are mostly about the outside and not about the inside. About make-up instead of arts and literature. Its such a shame.”

Source : Source: valuet.wordpress.com
“It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle”

Source : Ashley Montagu (1958). “The Cultured Man”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company
“Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.”
“Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest, which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.”
“My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.”
“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

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