"If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature."

-- Emma Restall Orr

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“To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.”
“To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.”

Source : Charles Edward Montague (1922). “Disenchantment”
“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.”
“It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all aboutâ€”figuring out the right product is the innovatorâ€™s job, not the customerâ€™s job.”

Source : "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.
“This is God's way of saying you've achieved so much, here's your chance to play against the world's best players. There's got to be some reason behind it. It has to be God. It's been created because of Him and the belief the boys have in Him.”
“Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.”
“The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.”
“Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.”

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