"I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans."

-- D. J. MacHale

#Girl Quotes #Beach Quotes #Jobs Quotes

“My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.”

Source : "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”
“And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.”
“I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.”
“In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.”
“Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.”
“For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.”
“It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time among themselves are far away from God. Real spirituality always has an outcome.”

Source : Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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