"Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder."

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Source : Philip Gulley (2009). “Front Porch Tales: Warm Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love”, p.19, Harper Collins

Philip Gulley

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“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”
“I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.”
“Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.”
“To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.”

Source : "The Human Predicament: A Way Out?". Contemporary Philosophy 11(6), p. 4, 1985.
“It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure an increase in the number of murders, well, it will mean that they have been quite useful in some way or another."”
“I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.”
“For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.”
“I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.”

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