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“If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you”
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“The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.”
Source : Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.”
Source : Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.”
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“Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.”
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“All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.”
Source : John Bertram Phillips (1984). “The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips”, Macmillan Pub Co
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“I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.”
Source : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.21, Zondervan
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“All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go.”
