"If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer."

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Source : Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.18, Hachette UK

Philip Yancey

#Prayer Quotes #Being Me Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.”
“It's not going to be easy to change things.”
“Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.”

Source : William Archibald Dunning (1972). “A History of Political Theories”
“My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed”
“Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.”
“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences...”

Source : Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books
“In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.”

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