#din

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#challenge #check #christians #commitment #convenience

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#america #either #europe #europeans #few

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. ↗

— Jason Statham

#coordination #exercises #extensive #fight #lot

It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#apply #best #determine #duty #him

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#forfeiture #game #limit #penalty #time

In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs. ↗

— Michael Steele

#adhere #businesses #congress #creating #devoted

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#ask #bride #draw #drew #going

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#difficult #else #everything #extraordinarily #finding

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man