"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making."

-- Jose Marti

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes

“The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world. ... Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.”
“A Christ upon paper, though it were the sacred pages of the Gospel, would have been as powerless to save Christendom as a Christ in fresco; not less feeble than the Countenance which, in the last stages of its decay, may be traced on the wall of the Refectory at Milan. A living Christ is the key to the phenomenon of Christian history.”
“I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who youll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.”
“He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.”
“To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.”
“We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.”
“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books
“I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it.”

Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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