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Until They Bring the Streetcars Back

by Stanley Gordon West

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“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

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“Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

tags: passion

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“The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don’t create it. You don’t define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it—or bow to it.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

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“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

tags: america, amusement, entertainment, excess

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“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life

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