"Am I prepared to let God grip me by His power and do a work in me that is worthy of Himself? Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God's idea of what He wants to do for me, and He has to get me into the attitude of mind and spirit where at any cost I will let Him sanctify me wholly."

-- Oswald Chambers

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“I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.”
“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.”

Source : "Natalie Merchant On Motherhood As Muse". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.
“I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.”
“Every time I go out and do something, Hans panics and starts trying to beat me. He's like a dog humping your leg.”
“People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.”
“However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.”

Source : "Electrical Papers". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Vol. I; Preface, p. vii, 1892.
“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”
“Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.”

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