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“Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.”
Source : Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress
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“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.”
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“and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive,”
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“I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ...”
Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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“We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.”
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“Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.”
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“The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial system and that, in itself, fosters conflict.”
Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière