"What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.”

Source : Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.544, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.”
“Iâ€™m very romantic. I really believe in true love, a love that you only find once in a lifetime, if you have the chance. Because, I think that many people never find it, which is very sad. But, Iâ€™m not a guy who flirts easily with girls. I believe that thereâ€™s somebody out there for me. Iâ€™m still searching.”
“I think people in general don't take enough risks. Some people feel that before they can take on that next challenge they need to be 100 percent ready. It's just not true. Even people in their jobs aren't perfect at their jobs. So my biggest advice to people is to step out there. Take the risk and deal with it. What is the worst that could happen? It's about thriving on risk instead of shrinking from risk.”
“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”
“All language is political.”
“You make yourself available to the movement. At that point, for example, battered wives were not on the top of anybody's list. It was, "What did you do to provoke him? Why would he do that to you?" Stuff like that. I called the hotline, and I said I was available to help get orders of protection. I would help do whatever needed to be done, serve their papers. Many times, they'd go to court, get their papers, and then be afraid to serve them on the guy. So that was one source of income. But I took anything that came across my doorstep.”

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