"Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike."

-- Carl Sandburg

#Prayer Quotes #Hammers Quotes #Steel Quotes

“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”

Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press
“So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.”
“Love is the medicine that saves from disease.”
“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.”
“I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they canâ€™t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.”
“All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.”
“Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.”

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