"Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you."

-- Annie Dillard

#Giving Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.”
“Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.”
“In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.”

Source : John Adams' Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 4, 1797.
“It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching 'SVU.' It's funny. And it's always the reruns.”

Source : "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview with Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
“What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.”

Source : Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.66, Titus Books
“I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.”
“Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
“If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa”

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