The Etiquette of To-day(via )
“Every social code presupposes the trained personality, that is, the individual who is intelligent enough and controlled enough to conform to the rules prescribed for the good of all. It is only in the common good that true individual good can be found. Therefore is it so essential that every man regard his brother’s welfare as anxiously as his own, and permit himself to be curbed in his extravagances, limited in the indulgence of even legitimate desires, in order that he may not defraud another, or menace the general well-being.”
— Edith B. (Edith Bertha) OrdwayThe Etiquette of To-day
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“if choice were to be had, Paul now goes on, he would certainly opt for execution, since that would mean the realization of his lifelong passion; but, he returns in v. 24, since choice cannot be had, remaining “in the flesh” for their sakes is more likely the divine choice.31”
— Gordon D. Fee
Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (New International Commentary on the New Testament)
(via Manan Grover)
“And the destruction of freedom by inches (though he does not see it to be the destruction of freedom) is the one panacea so obvious that he marvels at the doctrinaires who resist or suspect the process.”
— Hilaire Belloc
The Servile State
(via Kevin Holmes)
“The history of man is, to a large degree, the history of sin.”
— Charles Hodge
Systematic Theology Volume 1
(via Justin R. Andrusk)
“nettled”
— Terry Brooks
The Sword of Shannara
(via Kyle Stults)
“whenever we pause, and enter the quiet, and rest in the utter stillness, we can hear that whispering voice calling to us still: never forget the Good, and never forget the True, and never forget the Beautiful, for these are the faces of your own deepest Self, freely shown to you.”
— Ken Wilber
The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
(via David F. Teachout)
“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”
— Max Brooks
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
(via J. E. Martini)
“Never encourage tattling or detraction; if there were no listeners this petty vice could not exist; besides, the habit of listening to this sort of gossip will soon induce you to participate, by similar communications.”
— Anonymous
A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies
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“Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.”
— Donald Miller
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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“If you need me to motivate you, I probably don’t want to hire you.”
— Daniel H. Pink
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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