"I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another."

-- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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“I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.”
“I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.”
“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Iâ€™d found him â€“ not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.”

Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
“[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.”

Source : Milovan Đilas (1975). “Parts of a Lifetime”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.”

Source : "Anthony Mackie: 'There are a lot of limitations placed on young black actors'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.”
“It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.”
“I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.”

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