"The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the truth, that heavenly dweller and denizen. Only then do we truly live. Therefore, the essential interests of the soul require that we should oftener rise above the earth, upwards to heaven, where is our true life, our true country, which shall have no end."

-- John of Kronstadt

#Christian Quotes #Country Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.”
“With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.”
“Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.”

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“Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.”
“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”
“I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.”
“August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.”
“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.”

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