"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53311867 

BBC News - US & Canada

Cancel culture: What unites young people against Obama and Trump

Published 7 July 2020

quote:

Obama: 'The world is messy'

Last October [2019], former President Barack Obama challenged cancel culture and the idea of being "woke" - a term describing being alert to injustices and what's going on in the community - saying change was complex.

"I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people," Mr. Obama said.

"The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws."

“Never let THEM define YOU‼️” @tb12sports

 “Never let THEM define YOU‼️” @tb12sports

~ Tom Brady, age 43, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, after winning Super Bowl LV held on February 7, 2021, as well as winning Super Bowl MVP

the only difference between an adventure and an ordeal

 “My daddy was a farmer. He used to say the only difference between an adventure and an ordeal is how you look at it.” 

~ Cindy, age 83, Feb. 17, 2021, on surviving the  storms, freezing weather, and power outages in Texas

“There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.”

 “There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.”

~ Robert Graves, British historical novelist, classicist, and critic

Leon Morris - why I write

"I hate writing. Perhaps this is because I write so badly.

The tool I use most frequently is the waste paper basket. But I still write. Why I wonder? To be practical, money has something to do with it I imagine.

But for one so far from the bestseller lists there must be many easier ways of staying alive. I think the basic answer is that a writer must write. To write is difficult. Not to write is sheer agony. I don’t like agony, so I write. 

And I write in the hope that what I write will be of interest and of help to those who read. I write on biblical topics for these seem to me far and away the most significant. I hope that writing and these topics will bring writer & reader nearer to God."  

~ Leon Lamb Morris (1914–2006),
Australian New Testament scholar, Anglican priest, University of Cambridge PhD on The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross