"Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships."

-- Oswald Chambers

#Theology Quotes #Practicals Quotes

“I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.”
“Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.50
“Novels shouldnâ€™t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldnâ€™t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. Whatâ€™s fascinating to me about marriage as a subject for fictionâ€”a subject that fiction has taken on with gusto since the 19th centuryâ€”is how unknowable other peopleâ€™s relationships are. Even the marriages of your parents, your siblings, your closest friends always remain something of a mystery. Only in fiction can you pretend to know people completely.”
“I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”
“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
“The marathon can humble you.”

Source : Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.274, Macmillan
“If you are on Craigslist to get a sofa, and you see one for free. You think thereâ€™s something tragically wrong with it - maybe there are bedbugs. But if you see a sofa on there for $2,500, you think â€˜oh man, that sofa must be amazingâ€™. Itâ€™s the same thing with art - you set your own value.”
“I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.”

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