"We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other."

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Source : "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

Frank Schaeffer

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Family Quotes

“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.”
“If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.”
“It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.”
“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.”
“My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.”
“In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.”
“I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.”
“After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.”

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