"I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit."

-- Richard J. Foster

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“I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.”
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
“You do the natural. Trust God for the super.”
“There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.”
“The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.”

Source : Max Muller (1912). “Memories”
“You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. Itâ€™s a positive-and-negative thing: you canâ€™t have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find itâ€¦”

Source : Brian Sibley (2006). “Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey”, HarperCollins UK
“And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.”

Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.164, Macmillan
“It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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