"Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions."

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Source : Calvin Miller (1984). “The Table of Inwardness”, Intervarsity Press

Calvin Miller

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“There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".”
“If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to beÂ received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comesÂ by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faithÂ to faith.”
“A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”
“I believe that what's much more important is not what you say, but what you do. And I am a doer.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”
“Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.52, Elsevier
“I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible". Book by Frederic G. Kenyon, Chapter III, How The Books Of The New Testament Were Written, p. 21, December 1935.

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