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#Country Quotes #Communication Quotes #Names Quotes

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1951). “The Novels of Ivan Turgenev: Virgin soil”
“...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash.”
“There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics
“Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.”
“I dream too much, and I don't write enough, and I'm trying to find God everywhere.”
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
“My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.”
“Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.”

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