“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
“Caring for God’s endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.”
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 34.
Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848
Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Context: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
2:1
Church Dogmatics (1932–1968)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 378.
“If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.”
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
