"None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility"

-- Jim Elliot

#Morning Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.”
“I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.”

Source : IGN Music interview, www.ign.com. July 29, 2004.
“The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply canâ€™t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”
“Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.”
“If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.”
“I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.”
“The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.”
“Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.”

Source : Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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