"A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives."

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Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.372, Pickle Partners Publishing

Sarah-Patton Boyle

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“It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.”
“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.”
“We are saved by grace, through faith in Christ alone! And since there is no room for human merit there can be no grounds for human boasting!”
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
“Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.”
“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”

Source : "Edward Snowden says his mission is accomplished". www.telegraph.co.uk. December 24, 2013.
“As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.”
“Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.”

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