"The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be."

-- Vance Havner

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“I was born in revolution.”
“It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.”
“Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”
“In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches towards the consciousness, towards the spirit. We have always honored the high places because we sense them to be the homes of gods. In the mountains there is the promise of... something unexplainable. A higher place of awareness, a spirit that soars. So we climb... and in climbing there is more than a metaphor; there is a means of discovery.”
“Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.”
“Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are canceled.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2014). “Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, Faber & Faber
“I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

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