"Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned."

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Source : Francis Asbury (1800). “Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church”, p.456

Francis Asbury

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“It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.37, Pickle Partners Publishing
“As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!”
“You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.”
“Some only break their Fast, and so away: Others stay to Dinner, and depart full fed: The deepest Age but Sups, and goes to Bed: He's most in debt that lingers out the Day: Who dies betime, has less, and less to pay.”
“Honesty is the best policy in international relations, interpersonal relations, labor, business, education, family and crime control because truth is the only thing that works and the only foundation on which lasting relations can build.”
“You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.”
“Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.”
“I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.”

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