"As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,"

-- Gene Sharp

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“We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.”

Source : "Fred Hammond on His New Group United Tenors, and the Return of the Male Gospel Ensemble". Interview with Nakiyah Hayling, www.essence.com. March 23, 2013.
“The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.”
“Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.”
“I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldnâ€™t have gotten me out of my books with a wedge...Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life.”
“A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.”
“About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.”
“In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the centre of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.”

Source : "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

Source : FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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