#hone

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners! ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #honesty #humility #hypocrisy #sin

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#honesty #kindness #family

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#because #believe #characters #could #emotional

Like most guys, I've always liked watches. I can always check the time on my phone, but having a watch is so much better. ↗

— Andy Murray

#better #check #guys #having #i

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#eye level #fall #i #i can #kitchen

I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call. ↗

— Jay Pharoah

#call #gotten #heard #i #never

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#insanity #mental-health #psychiatrist #sanity #art

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#develop #either #fellow #funny #get

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player. ↗

— Nolan Ryan

#baseball #baseball player #fact #full #get

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough