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434cb0f You may be a lady but your are still the man! Lynda Barry
85d328c There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black light on life to illuminate the absurdity of it all. Comics tell you a truth you can only see from the underside of the psyche. At its best, comedy is prophesy and societal dream interpretation. At its worst it's just dick jokes. life pastrix Nadia Bolz-Weber
b2a443d I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors....Jesus could have hung out in the high-end religious scene of his day, but instead he scoffed at all that, choosing instead to laugh at the powerful, befriend whores, kiss sinners, and eat with all the wrong people. He spent his time with people for whom life was not easy. And there, amid th.. christian christianity faith inspriational jesus love Nadia Bolz-Weber
f75eb5d Fear not, brothers and sisters, God, who is full of grace and abounding in steadfast love, meets us in our sin and transforms us for God's glory and the healing of God's world. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, your sins are forgiven, be now at peace. father god grace holy-spirit love religion sin son Nadia Bolz-Weber
5e0ac1e Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as "the blessing" -- like so many mission trips to help "those less fortunate than ourselves" -- can easily descend into a blend of benevolence and paternalism. We can start to see the "poor" as supporting characters in a big story about how noble, selfless, and helpful we are." poverty self-centeredness Nadia Bolz-Weber
7ad7d2b we actually have the authority to remind each other of the gospel and defy the darkness of living in a broken world by pointing to the light of Christ. We all need to have our bruised, papery hands held while someone else says, "You are forgiven, and you are loved." Nadia Bolz-Weber
3fa5058 When what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try picturing it as a vulnerable and desperate force seeking to defy God's grace and mercy in your life. And then tell it to piss off and say defiantly to it, "I am baptized" or "I am God's," because nothing else gets to tell you who you are." Nadia Bolz-Weber
fd9c5d3 Purity most often leads to pride or to despair, not to holiness. Because holiness is about union , and purity is about separation . Nadia Bolz-Weber
6ae6f12 When the forces that seek to defy God whisper if in our ears--if God really loved me, I wouldn't feel like this... If I really am beloved, then I should have everything I want... if I really belong to God, things in my life wouldn't suck--to remember that God has named us and claimed us as God's own. When what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try pi.. Nadia Bolz-Weber
34c867d Which is exactly why our demons try to keep us from people who remind us how loved we are. Our demons want nothing to do with the love of God in Christ Jesus because it threatens to obliterate them, and so they try to isolate us and tell us that we are not worthy to be called children of God. And those are lies that Jesus does not abide. Nadia Bolz-Weber
aae8a29 Because sometimes the most holy thing we can say is: No. Not on my watch. Nadia Bolz-Weber
cc6bbf7 When I tell other Christians of my time with the goddess, I think they expect me to characterize it as a period in my life when I was misguided, and that I have now thankfully come back to both Jesus and my senses. But it's not like that. I can't imagine that the God of the universe is limited to our ideas of God. I can't imagine that God doesn't reveal God's self in countless ways outside of the symbol system of Christianity. In a way, I n.. gender god Nadia Bolz-Weber
0640406 Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away. Nadia Bolz-Weber
55df933 This is exactly, when it comes down to it, why most people do not believe in grace. It is fucking offensive. Nadia Bolz-Weber
f8ada9f God's purpose in prayer is not for us to inform or persuade Him to respond to our needs but to open sincere and continual lines of communication with Him. Prayer, more than anything else, is sharing the needs, burdens, and hungers of our hearts with a God who cares. He wants to hear us and commune with us more than we could ever want to commune with Him, because His love for us is so much greater than our love for Him. John F. MacArthur Jr.
121113a The truth is, it doesn't matter what a verse means to me, to you, or to anyone else. All that matters is what the verse means! bible-verse John F. MacArthur Jr.
668d322 For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer. John F. MacArthur Jr.
3bedcb3 I am a free man, the slave of Christ; John F. MacArthur Jr.
ee2332a The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. John F. MacArthur Jr.
b27ea0f Cansado do universo e sociedade, Da abstraccao que nao finda o que e fundo Do meu fatal por-olhos sobre o mundo, Pobre de amor e rico de ansiedade, Ja nada me seduz nem me persuade. Fernando Pessoa
d70200a The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying. John M. Barry
aef0a09 Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by. Laurell K. Hamilton
88b9d3e Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer. Jorge Luis Borges
fb57252 Albert liked to play the stoic, and he embraced the opportunity to do over the negotiations about the marriage. He insisted that Uncle Leopold know what a great sacrifice he was making for the Saxe-Coburg family and Germany. As he gloomily lectured his uncle, 'troubles are inseparable from all human positions and...therefore if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great or worthy object than for trif.. Kate Williams
3b7e42e O unico sentido intimo das cousas E elas nao terem sentido intimo nenhum. Fernando Pessoa
91799b6 Pensar uma flor e ve-la e cheira-la E comer um fruto e saber-lhe o sentido. Fernando Pessoa
ad871b6 Sim, eis o que os meus sentidos aprenderam sozinhos: -- As cousas nao tem significacao: tem existencia. As cousas sao o unico sentido oculto das cousas. Fernando Pessoa
1831fba E talvez o ultimo dia da minha vida. Saudei o sol, levantando a mao direita, Mas nao o saudei, dizendo-lhe adeus, Fiz sinal de gostar de o ver antes: mais nada. Fernando Pessoa
8f3c1c7 Being eternally at a point where two paths fork! Fernando Pessoa
47350c5 The search for the truth -- whether the subjective truth of one's own convictions, the objective truth of reality or the social truth of money or power -- always brings with it, if the searcher in question deserves the prize, the ultimate knowledge that the truth does not exist. Fernando Pessoa
286be26 Nasce o ideal da nossa consciencia da imperfeicao da vida. Tantos, portanto, serao os ideais possiveis, quantos forem os modos por que e possivel ter a vida por imperfeita. A cada modo de a ter por imperfeita correspondera, por contraste e semelhanca, um conceito de perfeicao. E a esse conceito de perfeicao que se da o nome de ideal. Fernando Pessoa
9bc63a6 Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really feels, And those who read what once he wrote Feel clearly, in the pain they read, Neither of the pains he felt, Only a pain they cannot sense. And thus, around its jolting track There runs, to keep our reason busy, FERNANDO PESSOA
8ff2ffe Were we as we should be, We wouldn't need any illusions . . . Fernando Pessoa
32d261e Tres vezes do leme as maos ergueu, Tres vezes ao leme as reprendeu, E disse no fim de tremer tres vezes: < livro mensagem o-mostrengo poema Fernando Pessoa
b2b63f4 And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills my soul: that I profoundly wish to die, to cease, to see no more light shining on this city or any city, to think no more, to feel no more, to leave behind the march of time and the sun like a piece of wrapping paper, to remove like a heavy suit - next to the big bed - the involuntary effort of being. despair Fernando Pessoa
e6798b3 I placidly wait for what I don't know- My future and the future of everything. Fernando Pessoa
fb69adc Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. There's infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock. Fernando Pessoa
9d51bb8 To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning it into a slumber. The other arts make no such retreat - some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself. Fernando Pessoa
5e5cf78 Chove. Que fiz eu da vida? Fiz o que ela fez de mim... Fernando Pessoa
e4529d9 Toda a gente que eu conheco e que fala comigo poema Fernando Pessoa
2faaf0d Permanezcamos asi eternamente, como la estampa de un hombre en un vitral frente a la de una mujer en otro vitral....Entre nosotros, sombras cuyos pasos suenan frios, son de la humanidad que pasa....Murmullos de plegarias, secretos de (....) pasaran entre nosotros.....A veces el aire se puebla de (.....) de inciensos. Y nosotros siempre en los mismos vitrales, en los colores que el sol nos dara al tocarnos, en las lineas impuestas por la noc.. Fernando Pessoa
9383079 But do my words ring in anyone else's soul? Does anyone hear them besides me? Fernando Pessoa
70bf846 Nao sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Nao posso querer ser nada. A parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo. Fernando Pessoa
d71a6dd The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. the-book-of-disquiet Fernando Pessoa