"Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored."

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Source : James K. Polk's First Annual Message to Congress, memory.loc.gov. December 2, 1845.

James K. Polk

#Religious Quotes #Humility Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”
“The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different hours and moods so that I feel they are finally right for me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.”
“We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.”

Source : J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.8, Discovery House
“Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.”
“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.”
“humanity is a cancer on the body of the world”
“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”

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