"For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow."

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Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

Amelia Barr

#Sorrow Quotes #Forethought Quotes #Stills Quotes

“Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You donâ€™t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.”
“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.”
“A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...”

Source : John Marsden (1996). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, Laurel Leaf
“There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.”
“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
“This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the inscription from Holy Writ which St. Thomas has explained: "The work of justice shall be peace"; a text applicable to the life of a people whether it be considered in itself or in its relations with other nations.”
“No one ever judges their own self.”

Source : "Q&A: James Wolk on the Brilliant Bob Benson". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2013.
“Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”

Source : Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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