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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard."
"Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?"
"Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?"
"God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers."
"So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization."
"On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love."
"The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second, immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor."
"I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research."
"Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country."
"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."
"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."
"The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes."
"He comes where He commands us to leave."
"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."
"One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it."
"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."
"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
"It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white."
"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
"I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority."
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity."
"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."
"Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create."
"But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so."
"Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ."
"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion."
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