"The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours."

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Source : John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.170, Multnomah

John Piper

#Believe Quotes #Delay Quotes #Detours Quotes

“To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”

Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". SRB interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.
“If I was not allowed to mention that I was in the film industry, I could go six months without getting a kiss.”

Source : "Hall Pass' Peter Farrelly and Pete Jones". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2011.
“Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.”
“Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013
“The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?”
“I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?”

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