"Make your best thoughts into action."

-- Suzanne Curchod

“The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.”

Source : Song: World on Fire, Album: Afterglow, 2003
“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

Source : Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin
“In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.”
“In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.”

Source : William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12
“The National League is baseball to me.”
“The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded.”
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
“What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?”

Source : Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.387, The Floating Press

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