"Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me."

-- Charles L. Allen

#Christian Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.27, Penguin
“My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.”
“Eat your alcohol, or you won't get nonconsensual sex!”
“She did it the hard way.”
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
“I was always interested in drawing and painting. I enrolled in college to study painting. But I didn't have any livelihood when I graduated. My mother died very young, and I didn't have any home, so I had to find a way to earn a living. It seemed to me that photography - to the great disappointment, I have to say, of my painting teacher - could offer that. So I went and did a degree in photography, and then after that I could go out and get paid for work. For portraits, things like that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.”
“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2009). “The Visitor”, p.42, Harper Collins

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