"I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner."

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Source : "A Runner’s Belief: God Is His Coach" By Jeré Longman, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 2012.

Ryan Hall

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“I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.”
“We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.”
“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”

Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House
“The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.”
“I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.”
“If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.”
“To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.”
“Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.”

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