"When one thinks of the wondrous glory of Christ, how astonishing that He can join with us! But more, when one thinks of His bringing many sons to glory at such a cost, one is lost in adoring amazement."

-- George Wigram

#Son Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Prayer is an attitude of the heart.”
“To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.”
“I always think that we know so much more than one would have ever known before. But I don't know if that's really true.”
“I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.”
“Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir William Petty's computation, make at least the third part of sensible men of the British nation; and it has been an uncontroverted maxim in all ages, that though a husband is sometimes a stubborn sort of a creature, a lover is always at the devotion of his mistress. By this means, it lies in the power of every fine woman, to secure at least half a dozen able-bodied men to his Majesty's service.”
“If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country”
“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”

Source : Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, 2010.
“You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.”

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