"Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God."

-- Richard Sibbes

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“I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.”
“A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.”
“Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind”
“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.”
“When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.”

Source : "Meet Peter Higgs". Videoby CERN, videos.cern.ch. July 1, 2004.
“Life is too short to be small.”
“I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.”
“I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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