"Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of Godâ€™s life in us."

-- Miroslav Volf

#Simple Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Attention Quotes

“As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.”
“The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.”
“He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.”
“Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c., &c., had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually ***** its progress.”
“You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.”

Source : Brother Yun, Paul Hattaway (2002). “The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun”, p.236, Monarch Books
“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”
“When truth is divided, errors multiply.”
“I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.”

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