"The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it."

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Source : Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.34

Frederick William Robertson

#Strong Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.”
“I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.”

Source : Source: www.rockbook.hu
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
“Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.”
“Everything is paradox. The danger is one-dimensional thinking.”
“An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.”

Source : "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.
“The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.”
“One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.”

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