"Prayer's a very tricky business."

-- Dodie Smith

#Prayer Quotes #Tricky Quotes

“All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.”
“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that heâ€™s been robbed. The fact is that most putts donâ€™t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journeyâ€¦delaysâ€¦sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.”
“Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.”
“I always felt I needed to teach to survive.”
“Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.”
“Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.”
“Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.”
“My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.”

Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.168, Penguin

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