"Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about."

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Kevin DeYoung

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“Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise.”
“The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.”

Source : Johnny Majors, Ben Byrd (1986). “You can go home again”
“Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make a fuss over it? Our self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move, a feat so luminous it would bedim the sun. What do we have to lose? No evil would attend our departure from this world, and the many evils we have known would go extinct along with us. So why put off what would be the most laudable masterstroke of our existence, and the only one?”

Source : "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror". Book by Thomas Ligotti, 2010.
“Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours. Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.”

Source : Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”
“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

Source : Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
“Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.”

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