God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
David LivingstoneRead
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
Interpretation
Life is a complex journey where we often rush and stress without realizing its true nature.
This quote highlights the irony of life, emphasizing how we often become consumed by our worries and haste, only to realize that life is fleeting and unpredictable. It suggests that we should take a step back to appreciate the humor and absurdity in our existence, as we won’t have a ‘curtain call’ to reflect on it when it’s over.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about finding joy in the chaos of life.
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.
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