"The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that."

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Source : Halford Edward Luccock (1952). “Marching off the map: and other sermons”

Halford Luccock

#Christian Quotes #Advice Quotes #Trying Quotes

“That means Iâ€™m not just here for the pretty parts. Iâ€™m here no matter what.”
“Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.”
“India has the most technically ambitious and innovative nuclear energy program in the world,”

Source : "How Homi Bhabha's vision turned India into a nuclear R&D leader" by Maseeh Rahman, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.
“All of the great whales are endangered.”
“Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.”

Source : Song: Carry On, 1999
“I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.”
“It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.”
“In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.”

Source : Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.116, Macmillan

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