"I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant."

-- Roger Sherman

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“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.”
“The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.”
“The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin
“What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.”
“To injure your opponent is to injure yourself.”
“Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.”

Source : Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.130

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