"You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands."

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John J. Geddes

#Distance Quotes #Anger Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Life is short is what some ***** said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.”
“Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.”
“The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.”
“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.”
“You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.”
“Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.”
“Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.”
“...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”

Source : Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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