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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
— Tim Tebow
My main mission in life is to help people and use my God-given ability to impact the world. If playing in the NFL gives me a platform to advocate for the issues that are important to me, then let's do it.
— Myron Rolle
I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.
— Joyce Meyer
By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement, but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement.
— Frederick Buechner
The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
— Frederick Buechner
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.
— Frederick Buechner
The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews.
— Frederick Buechner
We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.
— Frederick Buechner
For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.
— Frederick Douglass
They were great in their day and generation.
— Frederick Douglass