"Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?"

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Source : Augustus Toplady (1825). “The works of Augustus M. Toplady”, p.435

Augustus Toplady

“I wouldnâ€™t have taken him. Not because I donâ€™t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldnâ€™t want to deal with all of it. [...] Itâ€™s not going to be totally smooth things will happen.”
“Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.”
“There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.”
“Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.”
“It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.”

Source : Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.97, Penguin UK
“Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.”
“The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.”
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.”

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