"Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world."

-- Fanny Crosby

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“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”
“There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.”

Source : Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238
“Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.”
“We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimÃ¦ra. Probably your mom.”
“I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.”
“There's no me if there's no me and you.”

Source : Song: Ashes Everywhere, Album: Come To Where I'm From, 2000
“One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

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