"It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven."

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Source : Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.192

Thomas Guthrie

#Spring Quotes #Character Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I put the team on my back doh.”
“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
“Forgiveness is for anyone who needs safe passage through my mind.”
“Fresh, fun and oh-so-romantic, WILD HEARTS had me galloping through the pages. I absolutely loved it.”
“If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.”
“At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.”

Source : Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library
“If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.”
“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very badâ€”and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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