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“Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.”
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“I hate exercising self-control.”
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“Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.”
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“As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.”
Source : "TUC leader Frances O'Grady: 'People want some hope for the future'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.
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“Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy”
Source : Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Bedside Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, p.291, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“China came from a communist dictatorship of the ugliest kind to become a country which today has a smiling population. Things are getting better and better every day - you can feel it, you can touch it over here!”
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“But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.”
Source : Rivka Galchen (2014). “American Innovations: Stories”, p.10, Macmillan
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“To Sachin, the man we all want to be.”