"The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand."

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Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books

Murray Kempton

#Sacrifice Quotes #Reality Quotes #World Quotes

“Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.”
“I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.”
“I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.”
“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.”

Source : Pierre Bonnard, Jörg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia (2003). “Pierre Bonnard: observing nature”, Natl Gallery of Australia
“The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.”
“Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.”
“Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.”
“Jesus is giving you such an opportunity to be holy, holier than all the saints that have ever been, because the world is in such need of shining lives, beacons to see by.”

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