"If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.) If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.) If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)"

-- N.D. Wilson

#Son Quotes #Giving Quotes #Profound Quotes

“I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.”
“I cashed my first check in the NFL at a cashing joint-uh, I think they laughed at me.”
“Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.”
“The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.”
“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press
“And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.”
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.”
“At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo - slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.”

Source : Bernard Cooper (1996). “Truth serum: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin

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