"I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Christmas Quotes #People Quotes #Charity Quotes

“If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.”
“Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.”
“I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.”
“The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.”
“Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”
“You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.”
“I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.”
“Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!”

Source : Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.20, Hendrickson Publishers

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