#ions

We feel that, for the honour of God (and also, though we do not say this, for the sake of our own reputation as spiritual Christians), it is necessary for us to claim that we are, so to speak, already in the signal-box, here and now enjoying the inside information as to the why and wherefore of God’s doings. This comforting pretence becomes part of us: we feel sure that God has enabled us to understand all His ways with us and our circle thus far, and we take if for granted that we shall be able to see at once the reason for anything that may happen to us in the future. And then something very painful and quite inexplicable comes along, and our cheerful illusion of being in God’s secret councils is shattered. Our pride is wounded; we feel that God has slighted us; and unless at this point we repent, and humble ourselves very thoroughly for our former presumption, our whole subsequent spriritual life may be blighted. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#knowledge #questions #life

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then what is the laptop? A light saber or a life saver? ↗

— K S Collier

#life

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse. ↗

— Kurt Eisner

#deserves #fears #greatest #national #people

On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life. ↗

— L.A. Witt

#life

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#cannot #change #current #entertainment #escape

هناك أجيال ظلت تعمل في وظائف تكرهها فقط لتستطيع شراء أشياء لا تحتاج إليها .. لا توجد حروب عظيمة في جيلنا و لاكساد عظيم .. لكن لدينا حربًا عظمى للروح . لدينا ثورة عظمى ضد الثقافة . الكساد العظيم هو حياتنا ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #novel #soul #work #life

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #rhythms #time #life

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #questions #relationship #the-one #life