"Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge."

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Source : John D. Caputo (2014). “How To Read Kierkegaard”, p.14, Granta Books

John D. Caputo

#Order Quotes #Kingdoms Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 25, 2011
“Most people are telling me I look horrible.”

Source : "What's happened to Melanie Griffith's face? Star looks frozen in time as she heads out in New York" by Rosie Gizauskas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 17, 2016.
“For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse”
“Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.”
“And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.”
“I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.”
“A jump jockey has to throw his heart over the fence - and then go over and catch it.”

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