"If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love."

-- John Stott

#Suffering Quotes #Church Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.”
“The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.”
“I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.”
“There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.”

Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press
“If you give yourself one complete minute of focused presence, to simply stop; even to listenÂ to your heart beating, it will take you out of your head and introduce you to the moment which isÂ complete in itself. It is not on the way to another moment. It is not a bridge to another opportunity.Â It is the timeless perfection So stopand sink into this timeless moment.”
“The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.”
“Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.”

Source : Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (1996). “Crisis of democratization”
“When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.”

Source : "Giles Duley Interview by Lisa Rueff". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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