"Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing."

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Source : Charles Grandison Finney (2002). “The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney”, p.160, Harper Collins

Charles Grandison Finney

#Prayer Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.”
“Don't give your power away to anybody. If you find something to do that you truly love, you'll be successful.”
“Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.”

Source : "Jacobowsky und der Oberst : Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten". Book by Franz Werfel, p. 52, 1945.
“One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”
“After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.”
“It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line”
“The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.”
“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”

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