"The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate."

-- Timothy Keller

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Church Quotes

“I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.”
“Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.”
“It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.”
“The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.”
“And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.”
“A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.”
“I know in whom all my highest hopes and dearest joys are centered. I know in whom my whole heart can rest â€” so sweetly and so surely.”
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisionsâ€”we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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