"To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human."

-- J. Oswald Sanders

#Leadership Quotes #Church Quotes #Strength And Faith Quotes

“Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.”
“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.630, Macmillan
“I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.”
“There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.”
“Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.”
“Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.”
“In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on”

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