"Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will."

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Source : Saint Brendan (the Voyager), Saint Bede (the Venerable), Eddius Stephanus (1983). “The age of Bede”

Venerable Bede

#Faith Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”
“I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.”
“I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.”
“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

Source : Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.307, InterVarsity Press
“Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.”
“Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.”
“The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.”
“If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.”

Source : Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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