"The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war."

-- Menno Simons

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #Pruning Quotes

“Death is my neighbor now.”
“There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes,”

Source : "U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza". www.reuters.com. July 23, 2014.
“Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.”
“The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being”
“whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved." (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 15:14).”

Source : "An Alarm to the Unconverted". Book by Joseph Alleine, 1671.
“I'm actually embarrassed by the idea of writing songs about myself - I imagine someone hearing them and thinking This guy is a bit self-obsessed. I don't know if I really have a persona, in that respect. I want to just make the music and hide away.”
“If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.1930, Penguin UK
“I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me more easily when I am running. That is why I like to run in the morning, when there are no distractions ... Now some of my best ideas are born on the run.”

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