"Do anything, save to lie down and die!"

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Lying Quotes #Down And Quotes

“God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.”
“Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some”
“What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.”

Source : "Todd Bridges Says Wearing Diaper Was His Drug-Abuse Low Point". www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.
“Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.”
“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”
“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.”

Source : John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books

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