"Faith is the courage to face reality with hope."

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Source : Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

Robert H. Schuller

#Reality Quotes #Faces Quotes #Anticipation Quotes

“But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.”
“Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.”
“People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.”

Source : "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.
“Pull my trigger, I get bigger, then I'm lots of fun. I'm your gun, I'm your gun, gun, gun.”
“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”

Source : Nelson Algren (1983). “Chicago, city on the make”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Itâ€™s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps itâ€™s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
“Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.”
“What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.”

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