"Rapture's self is three parts sorrow."

-- Amy Lowell

#Self Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Experience Quotes

“What kind of guy goes to every city, has sex with every girl, then he goes and catches HIV,”
“It does not matter what your personal deficiency, or whether it be a hundred and one different things, God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.143, CLC Publications
“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.”
“Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.”
“Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.”
“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”
“Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.”
“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.102, Applewood Books

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