"Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots."

-- Aretha Franklin

#Roots Quotes #Church Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The better your attitude and the harder you work, the luckier you get.”
“I, personally, have found reading a continual support to writing.”
“So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield
“True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!”
“Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.”

Source : Song: Telegraph Road
“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.”
“Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.”
“You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.”

Source : "Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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