"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

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Source : Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

Elbert Hubbard

#Motivational Quotes #God Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“I saw your wife the other day and she is ugly. I know, but she sure can cook.”
“Heâ€™ll have to prove it to you. Every day, heâ€™ll have to prove heâ€™s worthy of you. And if he doesnâ€™t, thatâ€™s it. But I think he will.”
“If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.”
“I know who I am and what I do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.”
“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”

Source : Interview with Kristin McCracken, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.
“We're not clever enough to picture something and say, "Our music is going to be Jackson Pollock meets Oprah Winfrey" and then go about achieving that. I was in a band called Olive Loaf - it was the first thing I ever did when I first started playing the guitar when I was 12, and it was sort of like Ween, although I didn't know Ween even existed at the time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.”

Source : "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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