#rei

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party. ↗

— Charles H. Percy

#foreign #foreign policy #i #just #other

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia. ↗

— John Woolman

#back #carefully #concern #discipline #enlargement

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#doubts #freak #frightened #further #had

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#consumer #generally #initiate #rather #reinforce

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

#could #does #each #growing #growing up

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#consent #governed #law #mankind #opinion

I have learned to kiss the wave that drives me against the Rock of Ages. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#faith #sovereignty-of-god #trials #age

It was easy not to like the other foreigners. I wondered how I'd fallen in with such a band of freaks. There were so many odd, wandering types--a host of bent Australians, warped British, tainted Canadians, tormented runaway Americans. (I considered myself fairly well balanced among this cast, but then look what became of me.) I'd expected it to a certain degree, but I was still surprised. Most of them seemed like misfits. Only a few content. But all of us found teaching work with astounding ease. It didn't matter that, on the whole, we were ragged and suspect because the demand for English in Korea was so great that almost anyone was accepted. ↗

— Cullen Thomas

#korea #south-korea #teaching-abroad #age

Moses had yet to learn about El-Olam, God of eternity, or God, the Everlasting One. His sovereignty extends through the passing of time and beyond our ability to see or understand. Moses would have to learn to trust in God's sovereign plan in allowing his life to be touched by adoption. (from Under His Wings: Healing Truth for Adoptees of All Ages) ↗

— Beth Willis Miller

#god-s-sovereignty #age