"I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist."

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David McCullough

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #Evolve Quotes

“Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about â€˜good thingsâ€™ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of Godâ€™s love.”
“I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.”
“A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.”

Source : Watchman Nee (2009). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.151, Christian Fellowship Publishers
“Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.”
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”
“The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring”
“When people would ask me what I was doing, I'd be like, 'It's a horror film.' 'What is it about?' 'You'll just have to see it.' I really didn't want to explain it because it's really tough to explain without it just sounding really ridiculous.”
“The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.”

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