#wards

In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#land #stewardship #art

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11) ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#excess #generosity #giving #less #money

Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I’m watching a movie, leave me alone? ↗

— Cora Carmack

#cora-carmack #garrick-taylor #losing-it #movies

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#backwards #efficient #going #means #merely

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#immortality #leap #milk #towards

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#afterwards #battle #been #defeat #destined

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. ↗

— John H. Speke

#afterwards #again #climate #ever #foreigners

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#afterwards #big #during #first #getting

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#bishop #board #diagonally #extent #forwards

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn