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#Christian Quotes #Mean Quotes #Recovery Quotes
“Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.”
“Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.”
“There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.”
“It is not right to glory in the slain”
“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”
Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.426, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.”
“It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.”
“The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.”
Source : "Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833".
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