I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say. If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost. However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another. Anybody can honk.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.- William E. Channing Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.