#reach

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats. ↗

— Louis Zamperini

#billy-graham #god #gospel #jesus-christ #preach

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her. ↗

— Lee Child

#men

THEO: You should walk a fucking mile before you judge a situation. You should put yourself in someone else's shoes before you blame, or judge, or pity. It takes a long time to wear down someone's confidence, and it takes much more strength of will to walk away than it does to take another punch. ↗

— Con Riley

#truth-inspirational #inspirational

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

#destruction #dies #his #ideas #immortal

Mars is there, waiting to be reached. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#reached #waiting

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#became #both #brother #farm #farmer

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#our #preach #preaching #unless #use

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#habits #intellectual #most #needed #play

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#aside #attempt #children #differences #felt

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine. ↗

— Kate Smith

#between #get #hearts #i #i do