"Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“Belief is a powerful thing.”
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”
“A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.”
“Reliability is the precondition for trust.”
“To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.
“We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.”
“I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.”
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”

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