Thomas Steven Molnar famous quotes

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Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
-- Thomas Steven Molnar

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Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.
-- Thomas Steven Molnar

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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Thomas Steven Molnar famous quotes

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