Quotes
Authors
John Gerstner

"So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine."

-- John Gerstner

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“You see, Hansel and Gretel donâ€™t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought youâ€™d like to know.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin
“Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.”
“Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (1964). “How green was my valley”
“Janieâ€™s hip buzzes again. Maybe she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That would really suck.”
“There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.”
“I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Why shouldnâ€™t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of Godâ€™s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, â€œEnter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.â€ If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”
“If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life and Writings”, p.386

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