"More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Denial Quotes #Affirmation Quotes #Action Quotes

“When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.”
“I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.”
“Americans just don't understand dry wit.”
“Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?”
“To worship God in truth is further to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself if we desire it. Who will be so imprudent as to turn himself away, even for a moment, from the reverence, love, service and continual adoration which we most justly owe Him?”
“How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?”
“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”
“As to rocket ships flying between America and Europe, I believe it is worth seriously trying for. Thirty years ago persons who were developing flying were laughed at as mad, and that scorn hindered aviation. Now we heap similar ridicule upon stratoplane or rocket ships for trans-Atlantic flights.”

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