“It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter, self. “It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count ’em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
“The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the other.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: “This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.”
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
― The Gathering Storm: The Second World War, Volume 1
“For this reason, I have stressed his evangelical Baptism as the passkey that unlocks many mysteries of his life.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
“Willful waste makes woeful want.”
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
― Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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