„În cele din urmă, nu există decât două feluri de oameni… cei care Îi spun lui Dumnezeu «Facă-se voia Ta» şi cei cărora Dumnezeu le va spune la sfârşit: «Facă-se voia ta».

-C. S. Lewis-

[EN] You buy things you don’t need with money you don’t have, to impress people you don’t even like.
[RO] Cumperi lucruri inutile cu banii pe care nu-i ai, ca să impresionezi oameni de care nici măcar nu-ți place.

-Rick Warren-

There is hardly a man or woman who dares to be just what he or she is without doctoring up the impression.
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The man of culture is haunted by the fear that he will some day come upon a man more cultured than himself. The learned man fears to meet a man more learned than he. The rich man sweats under the fear that his clothes or his car or his house will sometime be made to look cheap by comparison with those of another rich man. So-called “society” runs by a motivation not higher than this, and the poorer classes on their level are little better.

-A. W. Tozer-

Tozer despre omul bland:

The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto.

-A. W. Tozer-