"There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Sacrifice Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cost Quotes

“I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.”
“I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brothers a drummer and Ive always been jealous that hes such a good drummer. I always try to play but its always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.”
“Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.”
“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.”
“Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?”
“In the short run, the big windfall winners ... have been the Islamists.”
“There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.72, A&C Black
“A sketch will not serve more than one state of mind & will not serve to drink at again & again â€” in a sketch there is nothing but the one state of mind â€” that which you were in at the time.”

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