"Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage."

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Source : Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”

#Courage Quotes #Men Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ...”

Source : One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)
“Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.”
“With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach.”
“Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.”
“What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.”
“Mission is both the announcement and the demonstration of the reign of God through Christ.”

Source : Michael Frost (2015). “Surprise the World: The Five Habits of Highly Missional People”, p.21, NavPress
“Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.”
“The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”

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