"The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 38, 1895.

August Tholuck

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“Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.”
“There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”

Source : Gerald Kersh, Simon Raven (1960). “The Best of Gerald Kersh”
“Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.”
“God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.”
“If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.”
“When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.”
“Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.”
“First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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