"What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?"

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Source : Gene Edwards (2011). “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness”, p.42, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Gene Edwards

#Men Quotes #Broken Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Often things are as bad as they seem.”
“Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.”
“Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage
“I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.”

Source : U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2006.
“Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.”
“Pain is the kiss of Christ.”
“An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.”
“Life unexamined, is not worth living.”

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