"time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?"

-- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#Blessed Quotes #Long Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.”
“What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.”
“Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.”
“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”
“The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.”
“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2009). “Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church”, p.1, Harper Collins
“Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.”
“The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.”

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