"Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'"

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Source : ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.96

Adoniram Judson

#Rivers Quotes #Joy Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.”
“Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.”
“To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.”
“First, I would say, is ideology. I have never spoken to any member of these groups, not just ISIS, but also Al Qaeda, Shabab, etc., who wasn't driven by the ideology. Beyond that, a lot of people are wounded in some way - they've fallen out of society in some manner. All of the ones I've spoken to seem to have veered off course from lives we consider acceptable and successful. Of course, there are others like Osama bin Laden, who was a wealthy and successful businessperson.”
“I'm get really into jackets from movies, Keanu Reeves' jackets and that, I don't know why, I just have such a thing for them.”
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Woman in White: Wilkie Collins Top Collections”, p.484, 谷月社
“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”
“Hell is paved with infants skulls.”

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