"We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has."

-- Amy Carmichael

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“I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.”
“...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.”
“I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.”

Source : "Blake Lewis Reaches Out To Gnarls, Will.I.Am After 'Idol' Finale: 'Call Me!'". Interview with Katie Atkinson, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.
“If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.”
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.”
“John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him”
“Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them. So don't ever confuse this with a war of civilizations.”

Source : CBC "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos, November 20, 2006.

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