"As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyrâ€™s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyrâ€™s death seems like normal obedience."

-- David Platt

#Dying Quotes #Normal Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.”
“I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption.”
“The choices we make, determine our destiny”
“FACT: You CAN make money doing what you love! Even in a down economy!”
“I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.”
“The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.”
“Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable.”
“It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them-that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.”

Source : "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, 1869.

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