"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Conceit Quotes

“The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.”

Source : "From Elvis to Jesus: Mother Dolores Hart talks about her extraordinary journey from a blossoming career in Hollywood to something quite different". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.”
“I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.”
“It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.”
“Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.”
“If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.”
“Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.”
“Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.”

Source : Commencement Speech by Anna Quindlen, www.mtholyoke.edu. 1999.

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