"Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God."

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Source : Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

Richard Baxter

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“I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.”
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
“Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union”
“If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!”
“I don't wait for inspiration. Writing is my job.”
“The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.”
“My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.”
“Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.”

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