"We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will."

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Source : James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

James Martineau

#Hands Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Faithful Quotes

“We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.”

Source : Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor
“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.”
“Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.”
“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
“Savings give you a lot of strength, flexibility and control. They are what give you the most powerful Answer In The World.”
“Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.
“When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up. You're saying, 'Hey world, I'm missing my front teeth. I'm gross; I'm dirty; I'm poor. I clearly have no problem with public urination and eating garbage. Don't come near me, I'll gum you to death!”
“Love is not a feeling, but an action.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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