"Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us."

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Samuel Richardson

#Wish Quotes #Credit Quotes #Gains Quotes

“The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.487
“But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.”
“One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.”
“The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.”
“When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”
“As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.”
“I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.”
“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”

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