Abdulrahman Virk > Abdulrahman's Quotes

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Language disguises thought.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. ”
― Steiner G

“most men have a hard time sustaining any sort of devotional life because it has no vital connection to recovering and protecting their strength; it feels about as important as flossing. But if you saw your life as a great battle and you knew you needed time with God for your very survival, you would do it. Maybe not perfectly—nobody ever does and that’s not the point anyway—but you would have a reason to seek him. We give a half-hearted attempt at the spiritual disciplines when the only reason we have is that we “ought” to. But we’ll find a way to make it work when we are convinced we’re history if we don’t.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Todo hombre anhela que lo elogien y que encima de eso, le paguen bien.”
― John Eldredge, Salvaje de corazón: Descubramos el secreto del alma masculina

“man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for “life” is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“The masculine heart needs a place where nothing is prefabricated, modular, nonfat, zip lock, franchised, on-line, microwavable. Where there are no deadlines, cell phones, or committee meetings. Where there is room for the soul.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“bucolic”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“you can’t ask Christ to come into your wound while you remain far from it. You have to go there with him. Lord Jesus, I give my life to you—everything I am, everything I have become. I surrender myself to you utterly. Come and be my Lord. Be my healer. I give you my wounded heart. Come and meet me here. Enter my heart and soul, my wounds and brokenness, and bring your healing love to me in these very places.”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

“winsome”
― John Eldredge, Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul