"A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge."

-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

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“John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.”
“Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.”

Source : Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.224, Penguin
“Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.”
“Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.”
“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Source : "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.
“Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.”
“Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.”

Source : Tara Stiles (2012). “Yoga Cures: Simple Routines to Conquer More Than 50 Common Ailments and Live Pain-Free”, p.21, Harmony
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.201, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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