"We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live."

-- Francis Chan

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.”
“To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.”

Source : W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.12, Shambhala Publications
“The point of advertising is to destroy markets.”
“We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.”

Source : James Henry Breasted (1919). “The Origins of Civilization”
“It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.”
“Ask of Her, the mighty Mother. Her reply puts this other Question: What is Spring?- Growth in every thing - Flesh and fleece, fur and feather, Grass and green world all together, Star-eyed strawberry breasted Throstle above Her nested Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin Forms and warms the life within, And bird and blossom swell In sod or sheath or shell.”
“The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.”

Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan

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