"If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it."

-- David Livingstone

#Gratitude Quotes #Calling Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life”
“Truth is verifiable only by identity with it and not by knowing about it.”
“There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.”

Source : George Gillespie (1846). “The Presbyterian's Armoury: and II. The works of Mr. George Gillespie, with memoir of his life and writings”, p.52
“If I get a parking ticket, there is always a parallel universe where I didn't. On the other hand, there is yet another universe where my car was stolen.”

Source : "What is Reality?". BBC Horizons, January 17, 2011.
“God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.”
“Years ago, when I was (at Stanford), you had maybe one or two teams -- at one time I was part of one of those teams -- you didn't have to worry about, ... Now it's not that way in the conference. A lot of the teams that were once at the bottom kind of have their games together and are making their way to the top.”
“There's a level of frustration and anger here in the United States that we're not prosecuting this war, and we're actually in discussions about bringing over Muslim refugees into this country, with a president who's now mocking, you know, the talk radio people, mocking the audience on talk video, mocking the sites like Breitbart, that are bringing up these issues.”
“Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.”

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