#in

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christian-community #intercession #prayer #the-church #faith

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts. ↗

— John Forsythe

#comes #get #hero #i #learned

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it. ↗

— Charles Fort

#actions #adjust #adjustment #another #equilibrium

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. ↗

— Garrett Fort

#evil #god #great #knows #lunatic

Everyone was busy down in the town streets. Some are searching for wealth, others seeking glory. Some want to be become famous, while others want to be worthy…it’s a rotten world actually. ↗

— Sherif A. El-Mawardy

#hurt #life #business

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#business

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. - Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance ↗

— A.Z. Kelvin

#az-kelvin #nelson-moon #rise-of-the-altered-moon #sci-fi #science-fiction

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business. ↗

— George Eliot

#practicality #business

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." Hubbard, Elbert ↗

— Brandon Collier

#business