"The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!"

-- William E. Gladstone

#Book Quotes #House Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.”
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
“I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.”
“I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.”
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.42, NavPress
“That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.”
“Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.”
“If you're from Africa, why are you white?”

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