George E. Allen, Sr. quotes

“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.”
-- George E. Allen, Sr.

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“When we get to the future, I'll decide the future.”
-- George E. Allen, Sr.

“He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.”

“Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

“I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.”

“Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”

“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”

“Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.”

“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”