"...I do not say, Don't play games or cricket and so forth. By all means play and enjoy them, giving thanks to Jesus for them. Only take care that games do not become an idol to you as they did to me. What good will it do to anybody in the next world to have been the best player that ever has been? And then think of the difference between that and winning souls for Jesus."

-- Charles Studd

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“I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capitalism taking over rural Ontario or whatever, has complete sway over aspects of life. Nevertheless, people still have these moments of weird desperation, weird longing, weird true love, or weird, powerful lust, and that was a major inspiration for me, too.”
“I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.”
“What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.”
“A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.”
“I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.”
“Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.”
“Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.”
“This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile”

Source : Jacqueline Rayner (2013). “Doctor Who: The Stone Rose”, p.248, Random House

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