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“To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Jesus Came to Save Sinners: An Earnest Conversation with Those Who Long for Salvation and Eternal Life

“Secularism is a worldview that allows no room for the supernatural: no miracles, no divine revelation, no God.”
― William Lane Craig, On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision

“as long as caste in India does exist, Hindus will hardly intermarry or have any social intercourse with outsiders ; and if Hindus migrate to other regions on earth, Indian caste would become a world problem.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Castes In India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

“ஏன் வாசிக்க வேண்டும் என்கிற கேள்விக்கு என்னுடைய முதன்மையான பதில்: “கூமூட்டையாக இல்லாமல் இருப்பதற்கு நீ வாசித்துதான் ஆகவேண்டும் ராஜா!”
― செல்வேந்திரன் Selventhiran, வாசிப்பது எப்படி?: vasippathu eppadi?

“சந்தர்ப்பங்கள் காற்றில் மிதக்கின்றன; சாமர்த்தியசாலி மட்டுமே அதை சுவாசிக்கிறான்?”
― செல்வேந்திரன் Selventhiran, வாசிப்பது எப்படி?: vasippathu eppadi?

“doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“We all think we know how the world works. But we’ve all only experienced a tiny sliver of it.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

“I have no first-hand knowledge of the Depression. My family had one of the great fortunes of the world and it was worth more than ever then. We had bigger houses, more servants, we traveled more. About the only thing that I saw directly was when my father hired some extra gardeners just to give them a job so they could eat. I really did not learn about the Depression until I read about it at Harvard.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Christianity is not the conclusion of a philosophical debate on the origins of the universe: it is a catastrophic historical event following on the long spiritual preparation of humanity which I have described.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“In a sense, it creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.’ This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“when human beings fight, the victory ordinarily goes to those who have superior weapons, skill, and numbers, even if their cause is unjust.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. LAW, Serious Call, cap. XVI”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Some people are born into families that encourage education; others are against it. Some are born into flourishing economies encouraging of entrepreneurship; others are born into war and destitution. I want you to be successful, and I want you to earn it. But realize that not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Reputation is invaluable. Freedom and independence are invaluable. Family and friends are invaluable. Being loved by those who you want to love you is invaluable. Happiness is invaluable.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he’s there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.”
― Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach

“The factor of relative concealment allows cognitive freedom to persist … we have enough light to make us responsible but not enough to take away our freedom.”
― Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach

“Mathematical calculations cannot demonstrate the existence and career of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE. But converging historical evidence would make it absurd to deny that he lived and changed the political and cultural face of the Middle East.”
― Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach

“This is manifestly false, as the unsolved problems of mathematics like Goldbach’s Conjecture, which is either necessarily true or necessarily false, though no one knows which, shows. By contrast I have tremendous certainty that George Washington was once the President of the United States, though this is a contingent historical truth. There is no reason a contingent truth which is known with confidence might not serve as evidence for a less obvious necessary truth.”
― Andrew Loke, Investigating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ: A New Transdisciplinary Approach

“The Washington Post wrote in 1909: “There will never be such a thing as commercial aerial freighters. Freight will continue to drag its slow weight across the patient earth.” The first cargo plane took off five months later.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Expecting things to be bad is the best way to be pleasantly surprised when they’re not. Which, ironically, is something to be optimistic about.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“When you have no money, and your son is sick, you’ll believe anything.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“A third is that progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Past a certain level of income, what you need is just what sits below your ego.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Having a gap between what you can technically endure versus what’s emotionally possible is an overlooked version of room for error.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Chronicling the Great Plague of London, Daniel Defoe wrote in 1722: The people were more addicted to prophecies and astrological conjurations, dreams, and old wives’ tales than ever they were before or since … almanacs frighted them terribly … the posts of houses and corners of streets were plastered over with doctors’ bills and papers of ignorant fellows, quacking and inviting the people to come to them for remedies, which was generally set off with such flourishes as these: ‘Infallible preventive pills against the plague.’ ‘Neverfailing preservatives against the infection.’ ‘Sovereign cordials against the corruption of the air.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Medicine is a complex profession and the interactions between physicians and patients are also complex.” You know what profession is the same? Financial advice.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Be nicer and less flashy. No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are. You might think you want a fancy car or a nice watch. But what you probably want is respect and admiration. And you’re more likely to gain those things through kindness and humility than horsepower and chrome.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money