"Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached-to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music."

-- Robert Bly

#Commitment Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.”

Source : "Education: Public Problems and Private Solutions" by D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries Media, 1993.
“All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.”

Source : David Weber (2008). “Off Armageddon Reef”, p.250, Macmillan
“I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my forties by letting Glen Ballard write songs for me? F**k that.”
“The one negative to horror is that it's always law of diminishing returns. When you go in the funhouse, the ride is never scary the second time. You will never have that pure experience as when you first watch it.”
“No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.”
“The past has always been the handmaid of authority.”

Source : J.H. Plumb (1989). “The Death of the Past”, p.40, Springer

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