"There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground."

-- Baldwin Spencer

#Boots Quotes #There Comes A Time Quotes #Rhetoric Quotes

“There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.”
“India will be tomorrow what China is today,”
“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.”
“This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”
“Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.”
“I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.”
“There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.”
“And God must be a pretty big fan of today, because you keep waking up to it. You have made known your request for a hundred different yesterdays, but the sun keeps rising on this thing that has never been known. Yesterday is dead and over. Wrapped in grace. Those days are grace. You are still alive, and today is the most interesting day. Today is the best place to live.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.32, Penguin

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