Edmund Gibson quotes

“The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.”
-- Edmund Gibson

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“It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.”
-- Edmund Gibson

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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.”
-- Edmund Gibson

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“The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.”
-- Edmund Gibson

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“A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”

“We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.”

“A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.”

“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”

“The Presidents Woodruff and Smith both said they were willing for such a ceremony to occur, if done in Mexico, and Pres. Woodruff promised the Lord's blessing to follow such an act.”

“It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.”

“All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.”

“Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

“There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.”