"We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him."

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Source : John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

John Bertram Phillips

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“Don't believe in success. Rather than that, believe in the amount of your effort and passion.”
“I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books...”

Source : "Producer Adi Shankar Talks TRUTH IN JOURNALISM Short, the Success of DIRTY LAUNDRY, Casting Ryan Kwanten, Shared Universes, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 31, 2013.
“The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself.”
“Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.”
“We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.”

Source : "SENSE8: Naveen Andrews Talks Working with the Wachowskis and LOST" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.
“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.”
“It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that Englishmen came to accept the Whig view of the utility of an armed citizenry. The armed citizen was not only affirmed to be protecting himself but, together with his fellows, provided the ultimate check on tyranny.”
“I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!”

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