"When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation."

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Frederick Franck

#Hands Quotes #Evil Quotes #World Quotes

“You were a terrible baby, do you know that? Bawling all the time, never sleeping. And one night you just wouldn't shut up, screaming like a dying pig. I walked over to your crib, I looked down at you. I wanted to strangle you. And you looked up at me and you stopped screaming. You smiled at me. Don't die so far from the sea.”
“The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).”

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“I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.”
“I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.”
“It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.”
“I already committed Darren [Criss] to giving a song.”
“In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.”
“Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.”

Source : Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.84, NavPress

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