"The ministers argue that within the context of scripture there's a requirement given by God that you've got to give ten percent of your income to the church. And if you give ten percent - here's the hook - God is going to reward your faithfulness by giving you that ten percent back, and a whole lot more."

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Anthony B Pinn

#Giving Quotes #Church Quotes #Hook Quotes

“Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source : Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr
“Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.”
“I am realistic â€“ I expect miracles.”
“I can tell you that what you're looking for is already inside you.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin
“It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.”
“I’m a child of the universe, I have lived in almost all continents.”
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”

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