"We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others."

-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Broken Quotes #Suffering Quotes #May Quotes

“The earth is blue like an orange.”

Source : Paul Eluard (1988). “Selected Poems”, London : Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
“My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.”
“Why do kids always say peace out, I though peace was in.”
“I don't Botox. I've never Botoxed.”
“A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.”
“I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.”
“Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.”
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

Source : John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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