“The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“Yes,” Marcus said. “The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“I’d lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“If a thousand things that made sense to me had turned out wrong, perhaps this thing that didn’t make sense would turn out right.”
― Randy Alcorn, quote from Edge of Eternity
“Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion; but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.”
― Isaac Newton, quote from The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
“Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to.”
― S. Hussain Zaidi, quote from Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”
― Austin Kleon, quote from Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“I look out at the ocean glittering in the moonlight and wonder where he is. Where is my perfect boy? Could he be staring at the moon at this exact moment, wishing for me, too?”
― Jillian Dodd, quote from Stalk Me
“Very few guys sparked my interest and managed to hold it.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Here's to Falling
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