“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
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“There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.”
― Seeing Jesus from the East: A Fresh Look at History’s Most Influential Figure
― Seeing Jesus from the East: A Fresh Look at History’s Most Influential Figure
“It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, and some kinds of speculation lead a man deep into dishonesty before he thinks what he is about. Poverty will not make a man worthless—he may be of worth a great deal more when he is poor than he was when he was rich; but dishonesty goes very far indeed to make a man of no value—a thing to be thrown out in the dust-hole of the creation, like a bit of broken basin, or dirty rag.”
― At the Back of the North Wind
― At the Back of the North Wind
“I pray for Your guidance, and I ask that the small morsel of courage I feel right now grows and remains greater than any fear that may arise.”
― The Gardins of Edin
― The Gardins of Edin
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
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