"(I want to) make good stories that have a redemptive message and allow people to dig into their own lives and personal struggles and go "Am I like this? Do I have these flaws too?" and open up a conversation."

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Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com

Drew Waters

#Struggle Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.”
“'Shrek 2' made over $120 million during its first week. In a related story, John Kerry asked Shrek to marry him.”
“Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction”
“One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.”
“There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.”
“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.”

Source : Idea Sonnet 61, l. 1 (1619)
“It's easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. But once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad, and you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common sense basis.”
“You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.”

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