"Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray."

-- John Calvin

#Men Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Way Quotes

“Writing about real stuff that really concerned me brought out my craft. If you're writing a story about, 'Is Lois Lane gonna figure out that Superman is Clark Kent?' - it's really hard to get involved in that on anything other than a craft level. And I'm not gonna put down craftsmanship; it is a noble enough thing to have made a table that you can pound on and it doesn't fall down. But occasionally, we might have an assignment that engages some other parts of ourselves, and those tend to be the good stories.”
“You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.”
“Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.”
“All nonfiction writers, whether they like it or not, are translators. The translator is the perfect journalist. The best journalism endeavors to convey an essential idea or story to an audience that knows very little about it, and that requires translation. To do this successfully, the writer must filter the idea through the prism of his eye, and his mind, and his writing style.”
“It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.”

Source : Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing
“The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.”
“Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.”
“I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.”

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