#than

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗

— William Powell

#cultivate #few #friends #merriment #mob

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars. ↗

— Llewelyn Powys

#eyes #human #look #more #night

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

#christianity #first #go #i #jesus

Be larger than your task. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#task #than #your

Thank the good Lord for a job. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#good lord #job #lord #thank

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#bigger #much #scene #than

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#scarlet-letter #symbolism #poor

Will I fail or will I succeed and accomplish the unexpected? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#devotion #guidance #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life #love

Multumirea o dobandesti doar atunci cand te angajezi pe deplin,cu toata forta,cu toate talentele si pasiunea ta ↗

— Nick Vujicic

#thankfulness #life

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #christianity #discipleship #discipline #fasting