"He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls."

-- Charles Grandison Finney

#Wise Quotes #Winning Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.”
“I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.”
“The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”
“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.”
“Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.”
“I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.”
“Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

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