"Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness."

-- James Stalker

#Memories Quotes #Fall Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I can be surfing the exact same wave and then sometimes something will just set off, even if I'm riding the same board the whole time. Something will just set off and it just feels like you can push just that extra bit harder.”
“Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.40
“Do not mourn the dead with the belly.”
“We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.”
“Everyone knows I'm just a big, good-natured slob.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”
“I donâ€™t mind the disapproving ones so much. Itâ€™s the tolerant ones I canâ€™t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her ever so slowly and gently. They donâ€™t realize how very intelligent Rose really is. Theyâ€™re just terrifically pleased with themselves. Look at me! they all but shout. See how broad-minded I am! How wonderfully progressive, how fantastically twentieth century!”
“They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.”

Source : Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”

You may also like: