"The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him."

-- D. A. Carson

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“God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.”
“No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.”

Source : Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.365, eBookIt.com
“I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.”
“If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.”
“I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41
“But who can remember pain, once itâ€™s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
“As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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