Ion Keith-Falconer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant by God to keep you out of the foreign mission field.
-- Ion Keith-Falconer

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Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
-- Ion Keith-Falconer

#Thinking #Chinese #Devil
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.
-- Ion Keith-Falconer

#Christian #Prayer #Light

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.
When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.
So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

Ion Keith-Falconer famous quotes

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