"Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you."

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Source : Calvin Miller (2011). “Letters to a Young Pastor”, p.8, David C Cook

Calvin Miller

#Age Quotes #Calling Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.”
“Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.”

Source : Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61
“My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.”
“Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.”

Source : "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.
“I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess that came out of going to college, majoring in music, studying classical music, and even as a kid, being really drawn to classical music.”
“It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.”
“Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”
“I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.”

Source : "Gary Numan: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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