"The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change."

-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

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“This philosophical postulate that the end of all being is the happiness of man has been sort-of covered over with evangelical terms and biblical doctrine - until God reigns in heaven for the happiness of man, Jesus Christ was incarnate for the happiness of man, all the angels exist and ... everything is for the happiness of man - and I submit to you that this is unchristian.”
“It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.”
“A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.”
“I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want, because I don't relate to that at all. It isn't fair! I absolutely live for food.”
“Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.”
“Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.”
“We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.”
“Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2016). “Beautiful Now: 90 Days of Experiencing God's Dreams for You”, p.70, David C Cook

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