#Progress Quotes #Compare Quotes
“I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.”
“Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.”
“Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.”
“According to your medical checkup, you are dead.”
“Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.”
“When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.”
Source : Thomas C. Foster (2009). “Understanding Novels: A Lively Exploration of Literary Form and Technique”, p.22, A&C Black
“The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.”
“Psychics exploit the human beings natural desire that longs for something higher. … The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with the opposite sex…psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”
Edward E. Barnard Astronomer
John William Draper Chemist