"If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility."

-- D. A. Carson

#Humility Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Harder Quotes

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

Source : Speech in New York, 13 May 1960, in New York Times 14 May 1960, p. 47
“And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.”
“I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.”
“Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.”
“A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.”
“Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.80, Macmillan
“Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.”

Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.11, Oxford University Press
“Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.”

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