"Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were."

-- Joseph Smith, Jr.

#Blood Quotes #Soul Quotes #Affliction Quotes

“You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if you is born rich and you ain't lucky you is liables to lose all you got.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Reality is never a golden age.”

Source : Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”
“I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime”
“You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.”
“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
“If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.”

Source : Curtis Hutson (2000). “Salvation Crystal Clear”, p.320, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.”
“I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!”

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