"Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful."

-- Shane Claiborne

#Powerful Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.”
“Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.”
“Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.”
“If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea (coffee) and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable.”
“The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher
“The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.”
“There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.”

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