Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
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Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first.
It is not inspiration; it is expiration.
How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.
My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .
Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic than trying to aim for radio play, or trying to satisfy an AR, or the other gatekeepers on these platforms. I don’t even know how to create with those things in mind. But if you tell me the goal is to inspire? That makes my job a lot easier.
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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