"What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy."

-- John Piper

#Essence Quotes #Evil Quotes #Broken Quotes

“What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker
“Be happy for no reason, like a child.”
“If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.”
“Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.”

Source : Ferenc Molnár (1925). “Prisoners: a novel”
“Mouths talk without authority sometimes ...”

Source : Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited
“An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...”
“I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.”
“Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.”

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