"Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church."

-- Oswald Chambers

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“Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.”
“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”

Source : John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.250, Random House
“Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.”
“It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.”
“I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.”

Source : Daily Mail, October 2007.
“What barrier is there that love cannot break?”
“Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.”
“Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.”

Source : 'Hansard' 3 February 1969, col. 88

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