"After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter."

-- Miroslav Volf

#Prayer Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“All soils are not fertile.”
“I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.”

Source : "I didn't know what Adrian Mole looked like - well, not until I saw John Major on the telly". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.
“What you look at hard seems to look at you.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1966). “A Hopkins reader: selections”
“The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.”
“In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.”
“First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.”
“By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.”
“You have to have been in love to write poetry.”

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