"I think it's important to associate with positive, upbeat people."

-- William Gurstelle

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“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes....”
“Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.”
“We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.”
“It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.”
“My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.”
“When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!”
“In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights”

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