"The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Being Yourself Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.”
“If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.”
“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”
“I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.”
“When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.”
“The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.”

Source : "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.
“Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.”
“As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

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