"Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed."

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Source : Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Robert Farrar Capon

#Running Quotes #Grace Quotes #Steam Quotes

“I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei”
“Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.”
“When I first signed up for a Twitter account - I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to think it's some weird self promotional thing or it's going, but in time I was called upon to like try to persuade other foreign correspondents and journalists to get on Twitter and see the usefulness of it which is kind of ironic. I think the journalists who are leading the digital charge at the Times have, all have that background as a foreign correspondent, which I think is not accidental.”
“BiomimicryÂ is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.”
“Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.”
“If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.”
“The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.”
“India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.”

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