"The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

#Reality Quotes #Men Quotes #Littles Quotes

“My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!”
“When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.”

Source : Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”
“My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.”
“All of man's ills are due to his lack of knowing God within him. The perfection of God's universe is founded upon its perfection of Balance. All of man's ills are caused by toxic poisons generated in his body through unbalance affecting his power of control over the functions of his electric body. Man, as an extension of God, is creator of his own electric body. He is master of his electric body to the extent of his knowing the Light of God in him. ... God says to man: Â»What I do, ye shall doÂ«, but man is unbelieving for long ages.”
“If we expect kids to be losers they will be losers; if we expect them to be winners they will be winners. They rise, or fall, to the level of the expectations of those around them, especially their parents and their teachers.”
“What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.”
“Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.”

Source : Song: Big Black Car
“We expect to receive again our own bodies, though they be dead and cast into the earth, for we maintain that with God nothing is impossible.”

Source : Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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