"Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God."

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Source : Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.27, Tyndale House

Sam Storms

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“The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.”

Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1918). “The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of the World War”
“So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!”
“I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.”
“I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.”
“Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.”

Source : "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.
“Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.”
“But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.”
“Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.”

Source : "Religious Perplexities". "Hibbert Lecture", 1922.

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