Quote by Chinua Achebe
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, y

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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History
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasnt perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. – Chinua Achebe

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good
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. – Chinua Achebe

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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. – Walter Martin

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Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they dont really have that strength inside to fly. – Andrew Shue

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My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and its a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six months time, so its going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but Im good to go so far. – Picabo Street

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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