"Christianity is not being weighed in the balance and found wanting.Â It's being tried, found difficult and rejected!"

-- Leonard Ravenhill

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“Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.”
“I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.”
“I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.”
“What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.”

Source : Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.”
“a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isnâ€™t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.”
“I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”

Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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