"Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes."

-- William H. Calvin

#Insecurity Quotes #Risk Quotes #World Quotes

“Scars are but evidence of life.”
“If you think well, you cook well.”
“As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.”
“Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had forbidden, to know what God had not revealed, and to be what God had not intended for him to be”

Source : Henry Clarence Thiessen (1979). “Lectures in Systematic Theology”, p.181, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.”
“You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.”
“The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.”
“Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen.”

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