"Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly."

-- Ion Keith-Falconer

#Thinking Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.”
“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
“Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!”
“I call myself "The Love King" in all aspects. Poetically speaking, in the bedroom, I love, and in social conflict.”
“In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.”
“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.”
“I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.”
“Music is another planet.”

Source : Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Daudet, Léon Daudet (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”

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