#rin

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ↗

— George Eliot

#again #choice #choose #divine #god

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#blood #care #confided #countrymen #descendants

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#except #lies #printed #public #spoken

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christians, with less façade and more foundation. Catastrophe will divide them from the world, force them to declare their basic loyalties; it will revive shepherds who shepherd rather than administrate, reverse the proportion of saints and scholars in favor of saints, create more reapers for the harvest, more pillars of fire for the lukewarm; it will make the rich see that real wealth is in the service of the needy; and, above all else, it will make the glory of Christ’s Cross shine out in a love of the brethren for one another as true and loyal sons of God. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#hardship #suffering #faith

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring. ↗

— Ben Elton

#easy #find #i #inspiring #respond

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#britain #continent #corn #free #free trade

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#during #health #i #i see #last

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#beginning #borrow #comes #couple #fast

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#disappearing #human #human nature #i #i see

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. ↗

— Basil Hume

#certain #death #each #fact #in fact