"Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Equality Quotes #Practice Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.”
“When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see Godâ€™s awesome faithfulness. Nothing â€“ not even the instinct to spare His own Son â€“ will turn him back from keeping His word.”

Source : Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group
“I am tired of the misrepresentation, calumny and detraction, heaped upon me by wicked men; and desire and claim, only those principles guaranteed to all men by the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Illinois.”
“Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.”

Source : Loren Cunningham (1997). “Making Jesus Lord: The Dynamic Power of Laying Down Your Rights”, p.19, YWAM Publishing
“A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media
“I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.”
“The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.”
“Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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