"He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter."

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Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.240, Allison & Busby

Jamie Ford

#Sweet Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.”
“I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.”
“In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!”
“The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.”
“It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.”
“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”
“The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already presentâ€¦”

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