"The end is never worth the beginning."

-- Vali Myers

“You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.”
“As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.”

Source : George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.582
“Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.”

Source : Samuel PEPYS (1858). “Diary and correspondance of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.,secretary to the admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II”, p.57
“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”

Source : "The Crow: City of Angels". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.”
“If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.”
“Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.”

Source : Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns
“The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance”

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