"Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over."

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Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

Billy Sunday

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“I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.”
“I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.”
“He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!”

Source : Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.24, Penguin
“I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult
“When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.”
“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
“Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.”

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