"The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them."

-- D. A. Carson

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“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
“I didn't start out to chart the skies; it's just no one had done it before.”
“I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.”
“In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism.”
“I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.”

Source : "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.
“I've never trained anyone that I haven't known as a child. I knew Kirkland when he was 12. Every one of them I started training when they were kids. This is not about just the fight game for me. It is a sport for troubled children that are drawn to violence and that type of life. Boxing has that violence part in it, but it also has structure and dedication and the whole nine yards. You get that little bit of violence that you were drawn towards, but it can save a lot of kids.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“I'd like to move back to New Orleans.”
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.”

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