"What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection."

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Source : Frederick William Robertson (1857). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Second Series”, p.94

Frederick William Robertson

#Dream Quotes #Blood Quotes #Names Quotes

“Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.”
“I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.”
“Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.”
“Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is!”
“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”
“The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.”
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
“The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?”

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