"Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence."

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Source : Kay Warren (2012). “Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough”, p.80, Baker Books

#Men Quotes #Independence Quotes #Maintaining Quotes

“Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.”
“I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?”
“There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.”
“The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!”
“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”
“Education has always been very important to me.”
“The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.”
“[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.”

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