"So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?"

-- Joseph Heller

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“However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.”

Source : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”
“Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.”
“The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.”
“I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing.”
“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.”
“You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.”
“Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.”

Source : "Kristen Stewart Cheats on Robert Pattinson: Her Twilight Costars Forgive Her". Interview with Nicole Eggenberger, www.usmagazine.com. November 1, 2012.
“To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.6, Harper Collins

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