"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."

-- Joshua L. Liebman

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“People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.”
“And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.”

Source : Justin Martyr (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Justin Martyr (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag
“I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.”
“The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.”

Source : Arthur W. Pink (2007). “The Sovereignty of God”, p.107, Lulu.com
“And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from.”
“I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.”

Source : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.199, Univ of California Press
“All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.”
“Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.”

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