“To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.”- R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)
Thoughtful people are safer. Do something well, and
that is quick enough. What is done immediately is
undone just as fast, but what must last an eternity
takes that long to do. Only perfection is noticed,
and only success endures.
--Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
[Anthony Trollope at a dinner at George Eliot's house]
'I sit down every morning at 5:30 with my watch on my desk, and for three
hours I regularly produce 250 words every quarter of an hour.'...
'There are days and days together,' she groaned out, 'When I cannot write a line.'
'Yes!' said Trollope, 'with imaginative work like yours that is quite natural; but with my mechanical stuff it's a sheer matter of industry. It's not the head that does it-- it's the cobbler's wax on the seat and the sticking to my chair.'
-- Frederic Harrison, Studies in Early Victorian Literature, 1895
_The Art of Worldly Wisdom_ [1647], Maxim 57
A man's god is that for which he lives, for which he
is prepared to give his time, his energy, his money,
that which stimulates him and rouses him, excites,
and enthuses him.
--Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection
of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Idolatry")
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That gentleness...which Christ showed, he requires also from his servants.—John Calvin
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