"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

-- Jay McShann

#Christian Quotes #Play Quotes #Kansas Quotes

“I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible. I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.”
“I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.”
“Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!”
“You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.”
“My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.”
“It's nothing personal, just business.”
“I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.”
“Play is the work of the child.”

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