"Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?"

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Source : B. B. Warfield (2018). “The Religious Life of Theological Students”, p.4, CrossReach Publications via PublishDrive

B. B. Warfield

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“Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.”
“To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.”
“Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.”
“How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.”
“I am not an African. I am an American.”
“Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time”

Source : "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure". Book by Tim Harford, 2011.
“Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It's your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It's a good thing not a bad thing.”

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