"The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word"

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Source : John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

John Owen

#Firsts Quotes #Flocks Quotes #Duty Quotes

“When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, â€˜okay, thatâ€™s where I want to be.â€™ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like thatâ€™s where the player hating starts. You know thatâ€™s where everybodyâ€™s like, â€˜Well itâ€™s not all that”
“Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.”
“Arbitration is justice blended with charity.”
“Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.”
“It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.”
“I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.”

Source : James Crumley (2016). “Dancing Bear”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (2001). “Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled”, p.102, Beacon Press
“It's very hard for Europe, the US and Russia to have much influence on the growing problems elsewhere in the world unless we have our own backyard in a more stable and cooperative atmosphere.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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