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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#chosen #civilization #compatible #god #happiness

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#ago #asleep #been #church #churches

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. ↗

— Max Jacob

#endowed #enough #give #illusion #reality

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. ↗

— Janis Ian

#asked #before #crying #finished #given

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

... In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive ↗

— Yvonne Wood

#inspirational #life #love #right #wrong

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#been #before #different #each #fascinated

To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#give #heart #here #i #know

It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-and-living #philosophy #vastness #west #western

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#forces #historical #history #merely #nor