"This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus."

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Source : John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.572

John Newton

#Jesus Quotes #Blood Quotes #Righteousness Quotes

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
“When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.”
“A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.”
“All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“Miss you,â€ he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.”
“I still care for you, you know.. That phrase again. Everyone cares for me. They just don't know how to love me.”
“I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.”
“Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.”

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