#tru

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#adorned #against #before #better #endowments

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#brian-tracy #evolution #evolve #giving #growing

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#days #give #i #old #old days

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve. ↗

— Jane Asher

#always #because #could #definition #feel

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true. ↗

— John Astin

#background #basically #blood #contradicts #dad

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#begun #common #entirely #europe #even

Of your own indefatigable labor from early dawn and of your explicit instructions, that the batteries should reserve their ammunition, until the grand charge should commence, for which the enemy were undoubtedly preparing. ↗

— John Bigelow

#batteries #charge #commence #dawn #early

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#none #photographs #them #truth

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. ↗

— Milton Avery

#aroused #capture #colors #construct #emotion