"If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge."

-- Philip Yancey

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“The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.”
“Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 03, 2011
“And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.”
“For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?”
“A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.”
“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.”

Source : Leslie Stephen (1893). “An Agnostic's Apology”
“What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court case behind this, no statute from Congress or the state legislatures. It was accomplished in a private corporate decision. The banks just did it.”
“I typically have a martini.”

Source : "Rona Ambrose is on a mission to give Canadians more Canadian beer". Interview with Sarah Boesveld, www.chatelaine.com. August 18, 2016.

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