"Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter."

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Jim Elliot

#Eye Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Eternity Quotes

“Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.”
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”
“All is well that ends well”

Source : Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.
“I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.”
“Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.”
“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy â€” or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop â€˜Hidden Artâ€™ will also, of course, take time and energy â€“ and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities”

Source : Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”
“Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.”
“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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