"Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refinerâ€™s furnace to the gold."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Spiritual Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Humble Quotes

“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
“Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press
“I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.”
“For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image of the time. Because maybe two percent of the people looked the way that we now associate with that time. I was also aware that what I was aiming for is an idealized, utopian version of how people could be together. I found photography to be a very powerful tool because as long as it looks real, it is perceived as real.”
“Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

Source : "The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity". Book by Heinz Pagels. Chapter 3, p. 94, 1988.
“Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.”
“True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice.”

Source : Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing
“Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.”

Source : 1817 Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.

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