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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

tags: color, minds, purity, thoughtfulness

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“Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the future, but we have no rights. There are no certainties. Any dream can become an idol and, if it does, God will bring it down.”
― Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

tags: dreams, god, idolatry, idols, sovereignty-of-god

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“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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“When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.”
― Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

tags: discipleship, god, god-s-will, self-centeredness, selfishness

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“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.

(Letter to A. R. Wallace July 1866)”
― Charles Darwin