This is more of a small excerpt than a quote, but still great words:
"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.
So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him. Christians, especially ministers, so often think they must always contribute something when they are in the company of others, that this is the one service they have to render. They forget that listening can be a greater service than speaking.
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God too.
This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there is nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words. One who cannot listen long and patiently will presently be talking beside the point and be never really speaking to others, albeit he be not conscious of it. Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies" -Dietrich Bonhoeffer in "Life Together"
Did you really just quote yourself in a 'brilliant quotes' thread?
Me, too. :jump:[Favorite quotes] Quotes are one of my great loves.
"When obstacles arise you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there."
-- Zig Ziglar
From Information comes more information.
greater wisdom is built upon wisdom.
ideas are strengthened by ideas.
so
enjoy
Qur’an Sura 9:5, “… fight and slay the Pagans [non-Muslims] wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war …”
Qur’an Sura 4:89, “Have no unbelieving friends. Kill the unbelievers [non-Muslims] wherever you find them.”
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IDEA'S
"The beginning and end
of all literary activity
is the reproduction of the world
that surrounds me
by means of the world that is in me,
all things being grasped, related,
moulded and constructed
in a personal form
and an original manner."
Goerte
"The total life of the writer
is the source of his work,
all of these go into his writing
in varying quantities:
the sense, as of taste and touch,
the rate of metabolism, blood pressure,
the digestion, body temperature,
the memory of things past,
perhaps going back to the childhood
not only of the writer but of the race itself.
The success of his work
depends on the liveliness
and alertness of his brain,
previous reading of books,
shrewdness of insight into human character,
his ear for the sound of language.
The writer, therefore,
must have a more than ordinary
capacity for life
and the power to retain what he experiences."
Paul Engle
"There are three points of view
from which a writer can be considered:
he may be considered as a story teller,
as a teacher,
and as an enchanter.
A major writer combines these three -
storyteller, teacher, enchanter -
but it is the enchanter in him
that predominates
and makes him
a major writer.
Vladimir Nabokov
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure
to do the impossible."
William Faulkner