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“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

Wells Self Use Creative Thousand Mercy Victim Accidents Presentation Actuality Creative Writers

Author:John Updike

“O youth.......be assured that knowledge alone does not strengthen the hand......Though a man read a hundred thousand scientific questions and understood them or learned them, but did not work with them---They do not benefit him except by working.....Knowledge is the tree, and working is its fruit; and though you studied a hundred years and assembled a thousand books, you would not be prepared for the mercy of Allah the Exalted except by working.”

Men Years Doe Book Hands Tree Youth Thousand Benefits Understood Hundred Mercy Prepared Fruit Be Prepared Assured Exalted

Author:Al-Ghazali

“If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.”

“To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.”

Needs Persons Views Mistake Responsibility Media Taught Thousand Mass Mercy Average Minimum Outrageous Advertisements Average Person Mass Media

Book:Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies

Source: Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men : Affirmations, Meditations, Readings, and Strategies

“When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I implored God, for the sake of all these Holy Masses, to have mercy on the world and especially on poor sinners who were dying at that moment. At the same instant, I received an interior answer from God that a thousand souls had received grace through the prayerful mediation I had offered to God. We do not know the number of souls that is ours to save through our prayers and sacrifices; therefore, let us always pray for sinners.”

“If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.”

Ifs Millions Thousand Mercy Investing Pounds Bankers

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.”

Men Way Made Spirit Father Prayer Sin Lord Written Cold Thousand Mercy Sensible Formal One Word Lukewarm

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

“You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.”

Knows Long Hands Eye Tree Wind Cold Thousand Mountain Long Time Mercy Branches Blast Vigor Bending Twigs Pine Trees Bodhisattva

Author:Katsuki Sekida