Wilfred Grenfell Quotes

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.

Wilfred Grenfell

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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • Black
  • Colors

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Love
  • Look
  • Falling In Love

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • House
  • Friend
  • Hand

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Space

• Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Together

• I know love is the answer.

  

  DJ Khaled

• I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things I enjoy doing could be boring to somebody else.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Party
  • Nerd

• Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Important
  • Faith

• It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Knowledge
  • Cruelty
  • Linked

• In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

  

  Albert Mohler
  • Truth
  • Church
  • Run

• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  

  Alfred Wegener
  • Truth
  • Evidence
  • Determine

• The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Knowledge