"Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!"

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Jim Elliot

#Knowing Quotes #Earth Quotes #Excitement Quotes

“I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.”
“On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'”
“I'm old enough to know what music was like before rock & roll.”
“I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.”

Source : William Randolph Hearst (1952). “William Randolph Hearst: a portrait in his own words”
“Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.”
“Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.”
“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
“Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.”

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