“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Charlie Ergen (1953) American businessman
The Verge: "Dish chairman Charlie Ergen challenges broadcasters and carriers, 'we're not afraid of change'" https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/11/3978746/dish-chairman-charlie-ergen-challenges-broadcasters-carriers (11 February 2013)
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894) British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.”
Michael Bishop book No Enemy But Time
Source: No Enemy But Time (1982), Chapter 30 “Marakoi, Zarakal” (p. 303)
Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum
The Walking Drum (1984)
Context: Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.
Ch. 46
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
Introduction, p. xxiv
The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949)