"A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?"

-- John Edgar Park

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“The history of mankind is a history of war.”
“Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves”

Source : Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.170, NYU Press
“Virat Kohli is an ODI batting legend”
“There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.”
“To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.”
“More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.”
“I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shaun Tomson from Mar 02, 2012
“I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.”

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