"Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples."

-- Shane Claiborne

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“There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A lot of people they donâ€™t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybodyâ€™s got their own cosmology. Everybodyâ€™s got their own description of the universe.”
“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (2003). “Poems from the Literary Gazette”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

Source : Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Anchor
“Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.14, Princeton University Press
“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.”
“I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If the women's movement can be summed up in a single phrase, it is 'the right to choose'.”

Source : Beatrice Faust (1980). “Women, Sex, and Pornography: A Controversial and Unique Study”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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