"Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do."

-- Mark Driscoll

#Christian Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“Ideas come from curiosity.”
“In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of no use.”
“Men, they come and go. They always will. Hopefully, they stay. But, itâ€™s the girl thatâ€™s sitting next to you, or the girl thatâ€™s sitting across from you, thatâ€™s going to get you through everything.”
“I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?”
“She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
“There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons to them only according to its pleasure, just as a proprietor refuses at his pleasure admission into his house; they are a sort of administrative sanctuaries, into which no profane person can penetrate. These establishments, on the contrary, in the United States, are considered as belonging to all. The prisons are open to everyone who chooses to inspect them ad every visiter may inform himself of the order which regulates the interior.”
“Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.”
“A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.”

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