Theodore T. Munger quotes

“Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”
-- Theodore T. Munger

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“All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”

“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.”

“I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.158, Random House

“Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.”

Source : "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.