"Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us."

-- John Owen

#Christ Quotes #Servant Quotes #Disciple Quotes

“Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.”
“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”
“A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's brow.”

Source : Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The poetical works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame. With memoirs, diss. and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.247
“The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage”
“Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.”

Source : Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155
“Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.”
“It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.”
“Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that Israel is committing war crimes should be so good as to do so with its own resources and not with civilian national service volunteers and state funds.”

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