"I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride."

-- Lorraine Toussaint

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“While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.”

Source : Leanne Payne (1995). “The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ”, p.65, Baker Books
“I don't shave when I'm not working.”
“Strategy is worthless unless you can act on it.”
“How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.”
“Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
“A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."”
“You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us â€“- not someone like the rest of the world â€“- if we are to have any godly influence on them.”
“The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.”

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