"What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?"

-- Jim Elliot

#Heart Quotes #Godly Quotes #Greek Quotes

“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.”
“People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.”
“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.”
“I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.”
“So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.”
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”
“I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.”
“If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all”

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