"The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose."

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Source : Colin S. Smith (2016). “Momentum: Pursuing God's Blessings Through the Beatitudes”, p.178, Moody Publishers

Colin S. Smith

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“It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.”
“Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.”
“There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.”
“How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a ***** cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...”

Source : "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth". The American Magazine, Volume 24, p. 18, July 1937.
“Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground.”
“I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.”
“Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.”

Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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