"The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!"

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Leonard Ravenhill

#Drinking Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Talking Quotes

“So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.”
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Source : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge
“There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ...”
“It's the way you ride the trail that counts.”
“The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.2, Book Tree
“I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear.”
“For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.”
“One of the manifestations of depression for me is that I lose my will. And I thereby lose my ability to focus. I don't think I'll ever have the day-to-day consistency in my performance that something like This American Life has. If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me - not mania. But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed.”

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