"Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Giving Quotes #Grace Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.”
“I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Human Croquet: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan
“If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation
“O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.”
“I think it's absolutely possible to write a song and go somewhere where no one's been before, uncharted territory. In terms of content, I see limitations where there should be none. I know there are things I wouldn't write about, but that shouldn't be the case. You should be able to make a song out of anything, out of any situation.”
“Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective.”
“Having a true faith is the most difficult thing in the world. Many will try to take it from you.”
“Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.”

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