"Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition."

-- Bethany Hamilton

#Sharks Quotes #Competition Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?”

Source : David F. Wells (2008). “The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“The way I look it is hard to look like a normal person. You know, in the streets when I was a kid, people always said I looked strange, and it made me feel unhappy.”
“As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.”

Source : Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, 1980.
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.”
“It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.”
“I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.”
“An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.”
“To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, â€œMay God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.”

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