"How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage."

-- William Gurnall

#Kings Quotes #Humble Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.”
“I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.”
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.”
“I was a coward. I went to the war.”
“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
“Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]”
“There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet”

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