"Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian."

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Source : Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

Washington Gladden

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“The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.”
“Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.”
“I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.”
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.”
“Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.”
“That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed.”
“Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.”
“The Compromise of 1850 provided that the prohibition of slavery should be left up to the individual States, thus thwarting the Canaanites in their attempts to make this problem an excuse for federal intervention and a cause of war between the States.”

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