#gain

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#artists #dangerous #great #i #intimacy

If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam. ↗

— Abdurrahman Wahid

#because #belief #cling #danger #defend

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#again #could #did #hard #hold

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#against #buffer #chain #energy #energy security

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move. ↗

— Coleman Young

#come #i #immovable #learned #move

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#equality

As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#christianity #church #fellowship #faith

If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#closed-doors #destiny #faith #faith-in-god #holding-out-for-the-best

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#becoming-you-you-re-meant-to-be #bigger-picture #consecration #destiny #faith

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don't really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren't really an ending; some things are never-ending. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#beginnings #endings #ends #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes