"Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ."

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Source : Thomas Guthrie (1863). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.23

Thomas Guthrie

#Rope Quotes #Crowds Quotes #May Quotes

“I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.”
“The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.”
“We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider”
“The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.”
“I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.”
“At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.”
“For instance, [Adolf Hitler] would never have spent the night at the WidenmayerstraÃŸe apartment. He visited it before we moved the furniture in, he visited maybe 4 times afterwards and he never spent the entire night.”
“I mean, that's kind of what this business is about in some ways. You're trying to make everybody like you. But you can't do that. You can't force everybody - anybody to like you if they're just not willing to do it.”

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