"Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace of God.' What hast thou that thou didst not receive?' (I Cor. 4:7). 'Without Me ye can do nothing' (John 15:5)."

-- John of Kronstadt

#Christian Quotes #Self Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Days go by I can feel 'em flying like a hand out the window in the wind!”
“If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.”

Source : "Alex Ross: Time to show our appreciation for classical music". Interview with Alex Ross, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2010.
“I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.”
“We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami”
“If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press
“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.204, Penguin
“Oh my goodness, I'm in love with Channing Tatum, although I think I'm too old to play his love interest. They'd probably cast me as his grandmomma's friend or something like that, but anything to be in a movie with Channing.”
“I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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