"God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people."

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Source : Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.106, Discovery House

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“It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.”
“When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?”

Source : "Love and Reason". Poem by Arthur Hugh Clough, 1844.
“Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.”
“There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience?”
“Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.233, Vintage
“The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.”

Source : Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.”
“You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.”

Source : "Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. February 19, 2008.

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