"I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last."

-- William Carey

#Lasts Quotes #Missionary Quotes #Daylight Quotes

“Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.”
“God is not there just for emergencies.”
“Can I liberate myself from all my concerns and enter the mystery?”
“Forgetting your mission leads, inevitably, to getting tangled up in details-details that can take you completely off your path.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion
“The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.”
“The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.”
“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.44, Vintage
“Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home”

Source : Edvard Grieg, Richard Yates (2010). “Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces”, p.36, Mel Bay Publications

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