"The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them."

-- John Ruskin

#Letting Go Quotes #Christian Quotes #Men Quotes

“Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways its a lot easier than acting because youre orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes youre trying to second-guess what people want.”
“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”
“When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.”
“In order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.”
“When I get involved, I give it my heart, I mean my mind, my soul, my body: I mean every part. But if it doesn't work out, yo, it just doesn't. It wasn't meant to be, you know, it just wasn't.”

Source : Song: Paper Thin, Album: Lyte as a Rock
“The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.”
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”

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