"Iâ€™ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a â€œthin placeâ€â€“a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan."

-- Tony Campolo

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“The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.”
“The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.”
“The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation â€“ to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.”
“Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress”

Source : "Democrats close Senate to push war probe". www.cnn.com. November 1, 2005.
“Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.33, Pan Macmillan
“He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. â€œYouâ€™re going to make a great mother, you know,â€ he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.”
“Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.”
“A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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