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| 73f8311 | It is only a matter of time till the reality of the rest of the world comes home. And all the while we are called by Christ to go to them, love them, sacrifice for them, bring the gospel to them. The Great Commission is not child's play. It is costly. Very costly. | John Piper | ||
| 8a3b2fd | Forgiveness is essentially God's way of removing the great obstacle to our fellowship with him. By canceling our sin and paying for it with the death of his own Son, God opens the way for us to see him and know him and enjoy him forever. Seeing and savoring him is the goal of forgiveness. Soul-satisfying fellowship with our Father is the aim of the cross. If we love being forgiven for other reasons alone, we are not forgiven, and we will wa.. | John Piper | ||
| dbbc59e | God and God alone is the final, ultimate goal of our quest. All that God is for us in Jesus is the Object of our quest for joy. When I speak of fighting for joy, I mean joy in God, not joy without reference to God. When I speak of longing for happiness, I mean happiness in all that God is for us in Jesus, not happiness as physical or psychological experience apart from God. | John Piper | ||
| 8d67c19 | Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy. | John Piper | ||
| 1d02e17 | God loves us by liberating us from the bondage of self so that we can enjoy knowing and admiring him forever. | John Piper | ||
| cb073ea | Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden. | John Piper | ||
| 4c8fc3f | The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 8a0e404 | a name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear. | Dai Sijie | ||
| de03ecf | Often, after extinguishing the oil lamp in our house on stilts, we would lie on our beds and smoke in the dark. Book titles poured from our lips, the mysterious and exotic names evoking unknown worlds. It was like Tibetan incense, where you need only say the name, | Dai Sijie | ||
| 076c052 | By the time we arrived the film had already started, and there was only standing room left behind the screen, where everything was in reverse and everyone was left-handed. | Sijie Dai | ||
| 4c28bf2 | Whatever we do, let's not imagine that the Israelites were ancient versions of ourselves, maybe less well groomed, who were "nice," read their Bibles daily, the kind you could invite to church and want to marry your daughter, who would vote Republican or drive a hybrid. We respect these biblical stories most when we try to understand what the writers did and why, not when we place false expectations on them, like seeing them as a timeless s.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 4386cc8 | But an important point is that, once again as with "scientific" proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt." | Charles Taylor | ||
| fa4bd25 | If this Jesus is God's answer, what is the question? Paul eventually came to the conclusion that God was answering a question that gets at the core of not simply the Jewish drama, but the human drama, a question that no one was yet asking in quite the same way. | Peter Enns | ||
| 37f0ed7 | For Christians, then, the question is not "Who gets the Bible right?" The question is and has always been, "Who gets Jesus right?" The Gospel writers and Paul couldn't have made that any clearer." | Peter Enns | ||
| 06f6497 | Cramming the stories of Israel into a modern mold of history writing not only makes the Bible look like utter nonsense; it also obscures what the Bible models for us about our own spiritual journey. On that journey, what matters most is not simply where we've been--the triumphs or the tragedies--but where we are with God now in the moment. All great spiritual leaders will tell us that living in the moment is key to vibrant communion with Go.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 0ce3910 | What makes the Bible God's Word isn't its uncanny historical accuracy, as some insist, but the sacred experiences these stories point to, beyond the words themselves. Watching these ancient pilgrims work through their faith, even wrestling with how they did that, models for us our own journeys of seeking to know God better and commune with him more deeply. | Peter Enns | ||
| 6196238 | When the dust clears and in the quiet of your own heart, what kind of God do you believe in, really? And why? | Peter Enns | ||
| 4ab411f | the challenges of our day-to-day existence are sustained reminders that our life of faith simply must have its center somewhere other than in our ability to hold it together in our minds. Life is a pounding surf that wears away our rock-solid certainty. The surf always wins. Slowly but surely. Eventually. It may be best to ride the waves rather than resist them. What are your one or two biggest obstacles to staying Christian? What are those.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 342f783 | the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry." | Peter Enns | ||
| 6599bfa | To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not. | Peter Enns | ||
| 1a69c49 | All this is to say, if your present community sees your spiritual journey as a problem because you are wandering off their beach blanket, it may be time to find another community. One should never do that impulsively. But if after a time you are sensing that you do not belong, that you are a problem to be corrected rather than a valued member of the community, maybe God is calling you elsewhere and to find for yourself that "they" aren't so.. | Peter Enns | ||
| 84464e2 | I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part--which is more than enough to keep us busy." | Peter Enns | ||
| daab3c7 | liberalism can't and shouldn't claim complete cultural neutrality. Liberalism is also a fighting creed. | Charles Taylor | ||
| d07a907 | Excarnation The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a "belief system." | James K.A. Smith | ||
| 47ef4da | The orientation of the heart happens from the bottom up, through the formation of our habits of desire. Learning to love (God) takes practice. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| c9f647f | Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love. | James K.A. Smith | ||
| eff644f | Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do. | inspiration inspirational-quotes | Guy Kawasaki | |
| 5f9117e | If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to possess over all creatures and set it atop the hierarchy, proclaiming it the very definition of consciousness (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg wrote something wise in his notebooks, to the effect of: only a man can draw a self-portrait, but only a man wants to) -- it becomes possible to say at least.. | nature | John Jeremiah Sullivan | |
| 7bf2d75 | Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows. | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| 6573f4a | Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." --Halford E. Luccock" | Guy Kawasaki | ||
| e784f21 | I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson! | quotinh street-literature urban-fiction | Donald Goines | |
| c95e352 | What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens. | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| 5109a99 | The eeriness of this lonely island, set among a million willows, swept by a hurricane, and surrounded by hurrying deep waters, touched us both, I fancy. Untrodden by man, almost unknown to man, it lay there beneath the moon, remote from human influence, on the frontier of another world, an alien world, a world tenanted by willows only and the souls of willows. And we, in our rashness, had dared to invade it, even to make use of it! | Algernon Blackwood | ||
| 57dd655 | from the perspective of the individual, it could be said that the single greatest difference between Russia and the West, both under Tsarism and Communism, was that in Western Europe citizens were generally free to do as they pleased so long as their activities had not been specifically prohibited by the state, while the people of Russia were not free to do anything unless the state had given them specific permission to do it. No subject of.. | Orlando Figes | ||
| 17ec3ed | On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons. | Orlando Figes | ||
| 5c12e58 | I don't want money. What the hell's money good for? You can't drive it and you can't eat it and it won't even fix a flat. | Pat Frank | ||
| 836f94a | Savannah must remain his. He drew a last breath, taking her scent into his body and holding it there as his heart ceased to beat. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7efdc82 | I want you like this,crying out for me to release you but wanting it to go on for all eternity," he whispered against her skin. "Pleading with me to end this, begging me to never stop. It is there in your mind.I hear you, see your fantasies.I know each of them, and I will fulfill every one." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 4ba17b4 | Francesca shook her head over the vehemence of that command, but she felt very precious to him. " " " " She tried to sound indignant, but he was making her laugh with his nonsense. " " He sounded very arrogant as only Gabriel could. " " | Christine Feehan | ||
| b98a5aa | It is true. I did fall asleep at the wheel. We nearly went right off a cliff down into a gorge. But there were extenuating circumstances." Ian snickered. "Are you going to pull out the cry-baby card? He had a little bitty wound he forgot to tell us about, that's how small it was. Ever since he fell asleep he's been trying to make us believe that contributed." "It wasn't little. I have a scar. A knife fight." Sam was righteous about it. "He .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7175a4e | Because you think you've changed your lifestyle. You haven't, you know. In a day or two there will be a killing in this city and you will be on the hunt without a backward glance, without a single thought for me, just as you did before." Gabriel smiled at her, his teeth very white. "I will have no choice but to hunt the vampire, but I will not only look back, I will come back." -- | Christine Feehan | ||
| fe91ca7 | You cannot look at me like that, , or I am sure to go up in flames." Desari allowed her fingers to tangle in his golden mane. "Thank you for thinking of my family when I could not." Her voice was a whisper of seduction, sliding over his hot skin. Just the sound of it made every muscle in his body clench. Julian made another effort to breathe. Air.It was all around him, yet he couldn't seem to drag enough into his lungs. He took her hand in.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| da39f81 | You have no reason to be sorry for anything, " Her clenched fist lay over his heart, the three diamonds in her palm. "You think I can't read your body? Feel the heaviness in your mind as you try to shield me? I can't change who I am, not even for you. I know I'm failing you, causing you discomfort." A slow smile curved his mouth. Now,there was a word for it. His hand crushed her hair, ran it through his fingers. "I have never asked you t.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 0c72d78 | What kind of understanding?" he murmured almost absently, his mind clearly on other, more provocative things. The trace of amusement in his voice irritated her, as if he were merely humoring her. Savannah pushed at the solid wall of his chest to put a few inches between them. His large frame didn't budge, and she was locked in by his arm. She pushed at him again. "Forget it." He bent his head to taste the vulnerable line of her neck, to fee.. | Christine Feehan |