"One reason there are so many unhappy Christians is they feel God should be doing them favors and heaping upon them material rewards and benefits, rather than working as a Carpenter to shape their lives back into His own image."

-- Jamie Buckingham

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“It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .”
“The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.”
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
“Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan
“When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.”
“I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.”

Source : "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg (pp. 239-240), 2001.

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