Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.”
Quitte-t-on sa maîtresse, on risque, hélas! d'être trompé deux ou trois fois par jour.
Vol. I, ch. XII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)
Character, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-0-87083-322-9
Source: A Tale for the Time Being
From interview with Komal Nahta
"Dinasty calls" http://www.economist.com/node/11328624?story_id=11328624, The Economist, 05-08-2008
“I am the Proof of God for the created beings and I am a proof for the saints (awliya) of my time.”
Sufism: The Formative Period, p. 38
Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955) http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1955-martin-luther-king-jr-montgomery-bus-boycott
1950s
Variant: You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.
“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”
