"Give us grace to listen well."

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Source : John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.64

John Keble

#Giving Quotes #Grace Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth”
“The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.”
“All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die”
“Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.”

Source : Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”
“The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”
“Its really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, I usually dont like female comedians, but your material is great! It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?”
“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”
“Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.”

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