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Gene Edwards

"Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart."

Source : Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

Gene Edwards

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“You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.”
“People look at my competitive spirit, and they automatically attach it to the thing that's most similar, most easily recognizable, which is Michael [Jordan's] competitive spirit. I'm different. I enjoy building. I enjoy the process of putting the puzzle together, and then the byproduct of that, the consequence of that, is beating somebody. That becomes the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.”
“When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.”
“In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.”
“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.”
“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.”
“See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.”

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