If words are to enter men’s minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. –J.B. Phillips, writer and clergyman (1906-1982)
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Very well put…Einstein said something similiar and Jesus did this with his parables!
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This is the quote from Einstein I was thinking of . . . “The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”
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