"We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us."

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Eugene H. Peterson

#Use Quotes #Ends Quotes #Careful Quotes

“You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous!”
“I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.”
“What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together, and they would not trust or want to listen to one another; but each is a piece of a stained-glass whole without which I couldnâ€™t make sense to myself, or to the world outside.”
“If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab”
“God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.”
“The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.”
“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

Source : Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam
“Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life and he can be sure that in eternity he will have as his lot the service and the companionship which he preferred in this life. This is what the Lord means when He says, 'If anyone is my servant let him follow Me and where I am he will be there as my servant' (Jn. 12:26).”

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