"The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws."

-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Flower Quotes #Soul Quotes #Sun Quotes

“When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.”

Source : "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'" by Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.
“Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.”
“Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the original purpose of the monthly concert of prayer for missions be given a larger place; let missionary prayer cycles be used by families and by individual Christians.”

Source : John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”
“If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.”
“All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do”
“To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.”
“I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.”

Source : "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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