"The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off"

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Ibn Taymiyyah

#Arrogance Quotes #Disease Quotes #Worship Quotes

“We have two kids, my wife and myself.”
“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.”
“The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes”
“IÂ don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. IÂ take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience.”
“I think that one of the things that my dad was grappling with towards the end was how that shift had happened now and he would go on a book tour and do his shows and it would be you know fulfilling and good, but he wouldn't have the same impact that he used to and it wasn't because people were less interested. It's just because people are distracted by the million different sources of entertainment and information in front of them at any given time.”
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”

Source : Comfort Me with Apples Ch. 15
“The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.”
“The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.”

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