"Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself."

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Source : Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”

Francis Atterbury

#Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Sake Quotes

“Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.”
“Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection, political prisoners, the arms race. There's so much going on in this world today, so much ignorance among people. That's not to say I'm not standing amongst everybody. But the point is, what can we do now? That's the thing about vegetarianism; it's an individual's decision and it's something you have control over. How many things do we really have control over?”
“I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you don't drink the water. You go to any diner here, who brings you the water? It's a mystery.”
“I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.”
“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.”
“My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.'”
“1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”

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