"Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other."

-- Philip Yancey

#Jesus Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”
“I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.”

Source : Christopher Pike (1993). “The Eternal Enemy”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.”
“Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.”
“Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.”

Source : Bernie Sanders @SenSanders, twitter.com. September 03, 2014.
“If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.”
“So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.”
“If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.”

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