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The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
— Thomas a Kempis
For a little reward men make a long journey; for eternal life many will scarce lift a foot once from the ground. Mean reward is sought after; for a single piece of money sometimes there is shameful striving; for a thing which is vain and for a trifling promise, men shrink not from toiling day and night.
— Thomas a Kempis
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
— Charles Dickens
She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble
— Charles Dickens
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
— Charles Dickens
You didn't take your wife p. 59for fast and for loose; but for better for worse.
— Charles Dickens
if vision is restricted to a belief system, or if it is divorced from all belief systems, it ceases to be vision. What is necessary is that it not restrict itself to a belief system but that belief systems always fall within the scope of poetic horizons... Visionaries (what we shall refer to as poets) do not destroy the walls, but show the openings through them. They do not promise what believers will see, only that the walls do not contain the horizon.
— James Carse
The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.
— Henry B. Eyring
When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
An acorn is an oak tree inside out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.
— Thomas Watson