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| c65be8f | Bono: But you write. Why do you write? Michka: well, because I'm unable to express things in another way. I often believe that the words that come out of my mouth are not the ones I should be using. I can't cut things loose unless I'm really sure about them. It's good, but sometimes it's an excuse. Bono: That's often an excuse. You have to dare to fail. I think that's the big one: fear of failure. I've never had a fear of failure. Isn't th.. | Michka Assayas | ||
| 0aabdb8 | The book of Judges shows us that the Bible is not a "Book of Virtues"; it is not full of inspirational stories. Why? Because the Bible (unlike the books on which other religions are based) is not about following moral examples. It is about a God of mercy and long-suffering, who continually works in and through us despite our constant resistance to his purposes." -- | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 905e339 | While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope. | hope jesus love pain suffering | Timothy J. Keller | |
| 7240f54 | As future citizens of heaven, Christians must see and avoid the idolatries and injustices of their culture, even as they continue to enjoy its common-grace blessings. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 68a566c | Do you want to know who you are, your strengths and weaknesses? Do you want to be a compassionate person who skillfully helps people who are hurting? Do you want to have such a profound trust in God that you are fortified against the disappointments of life? Do you want simply to be wise about how life goes? Those are four crucial things to have--but none of them are readily achievable without suffering. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 50e0efb | Christians don't face adversity by stoically decreasing our love for the people and things of this world so much as by increasing our love and joy in God. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 8151375 | When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods. As we have mentioned, Ernest Becker wrote that in a society that has lost the reality of God, many people will look to romantic love to give the.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d6aaecb | Christmas and the incarnation mean that God went to infinite lengths to make himself one whom we can know personally. What | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 2998d1e | The usual place to learn the greatest secrets of God's grace is at the bottom. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 6d0c898 | when the Spirit enables us to understand what Christ has done for us, the result is a life poured out in deeds of justice and compassion for the poor.5 | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 1cddd1e | It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error. | Piers Anthony | ||
| 00277d3 | Aristotle very famously said in his Politics I.V.8 that some people are born to be slaves. He meant that some people are not as capable of higher rational thought and therefore should do the work that frees the more talented and brilliant to pursue a life of honor and culture. Modern people bristle with outrage at such a statement, but while we do not today hold with the idea of literal slavery, the attitudes behind Aristotle's statement ar.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 9b63790 | God varies his strategies too, and continually extends mercy to us in new ways, even though we neither understand nor deserve it. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| ccc783a | The classic Old Testament example of these two ways to run from God is right here in the book of Jonah. Jonah takes turns acting as both the "younger brother" and the "older brother." In the first two chapters of the book, Jonah disobeys and runs away from the Lord and yet ultimately repents and asks for God's grace, just as the younger brother leaves home but returns repentant. In the last two chapters, however, Jonah obeys God's command t.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d343d2c | You are loved for Christ's sake, not because your heart and life are perfect. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 9401a38 | In the secular view, this material world is all there is. And so the meaning of life is to have the freedom to choose the life that makes you most happy. However, in that view of things, suffering can have no meaningful part. It is a complete interruption of your life story- it cannot be a meaningful part of the story. In this approach to life, suffering should be avoided at almost any cost, or minimized to the greatest degree possible. Thi.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 24bc73b | You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words:. . . . Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling . . . of that something which you were born desiring . . | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| f7ec8c0 | The same sun that melts wax hardens clay." In" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 6f86d66 | But perhaps the clearest symptom of this lack of assurance is a dry prayer life. Though elder brothers may be diligent in prayer, there is no wonder, awe, intimacy, or delight in their conversations with God. Think of three kinds of people--a business associate you don't really like, a friend you enjoy doing things with, and someone you are in love with, and who is in love with you. Your conversations with the business associate will be qui.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 8735fdf | Even if we accept responsibility for wrongdoing, we believe "we can fix this." The most common way we try to do that is to apply the technology of morality. We believe that with hard work and/or fastidious religious observance, we can repair our relationship with God and even put him in a position where he "can't say 'no' to us."7" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 6aa9e17 | The manger at Christmas means that, if you live like Jesus, there won't be room for you in a lot of inns. In | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 2271493 | Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance? The atheist might say that they get their self-image from being a good person. They are a good person and they hope that eventually they will get a verdict that confirms that they are a good person. Performance leads to the verdict. For the Buddhist too, performance leads to the verdict. If you are a Muslim, performance leads to the.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 493695a | I cannot live up to my parents' standards - and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to your standards - and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to society's standards - and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to other societies' standards - that makes me feel terrible. Perhaps the solution is to set my own standards? But I cannot keep them either - and that makes me feel terrible, unless I set incredibly low st.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 92d2860 | He sees all kinds of sins in himself - and all kinds of accomplishments too - but he refuses to connect them with himself or his identity. So, although he knows himself to be the chief of sinners, that fact is not going to stop him from doing the things that he is called to do. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| a0a26cf | fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| f89daee | Tengo la teoria de que, cada vez que decides algo importante, la parte de ti que dejas atras continua la otra vida que podrias haber vivido | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| a99c47b | Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation be.. | writing-process | Jeanette Winterson | |
| eaf7649 | It is going dark. There are bombs exploding. Alice is losing patience. She throws down the map and shouts at Gertrude: 'THIS IS THE WRONG ROAD.' Gertrude drives on. She says, 'Right or wrong, this is the road and we are on it. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| da26c22 | La verdadera Oscuridad es mas densa y mas silenciosa; llena el espacio que hay entre la chaqueta y el corazon. Se mete en los ojos. Cuando estoy fuera por la noche, no son los cuchillos lo que me da miedo, sino la Oscuridad. Tu que caminas tan alegremente, silbando, detente cinco minutos. Detente en la Oscuridad en un campo o en un sendero. Entonces te daras cuenta de que tu presencia es solo tolerada. La Oscuridad solo te permite dar un pa.. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| c9f716b | I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 6ad77a1 | I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d23aca8 | Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| d38814f | There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. She burnt a lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don't think she knew. In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more, not the White Queen any more. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 7f22cad | Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4834b43 | If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 113b219 | In my country there are no gods left. The Romans have driven them out. There are some who say that they have hidden themselves in the mountains, but I do not believe it. Three nights I have been on the mountains seeking them everywhere. I did not find them. And at last I called them by their names, and they did not come. I think they are dead. | sci sci-fi-romance the-stone-gods | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 4eeed67 | It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 4ebce23 | If the demons lived anywhere it was here. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| cd4ce31 | Credeam ca vrea sa calatoreasca, dar imi spune adevaruri pe care le stiu deja, ca nu e nevoie sa plece de pe insula ca sa vada lumea, ca are destule mari si orase in minte. Daca e asa, daca toti le avem, atunci poate ca lumea aceasta, luna si stelele sunt si ele plasmuiri ale mintii, insa ale unei minti cu o deschidere mai larga decat a noastra. Chiar daca cineva ma gandeste, sunt liber sa fac ce vreau. Nu poate fi precum sahul universul ac.. | traveling | Jeanette Winterson | |
| 605ded8 | De ce sa scap? De prezent? Da, de acest prim-plan care-mi ascunde ce se intampla in perspectiva. Daca am spirit sau suflet, spuneti-i cum vreti, nu e unul singur, ci multiplu. Nu se poate multumi cu limitarea, el vrea spatiu. Poate sa locuiasca in numeroase trupuri schimbatoare, intrate in putrefactie, din viitor sau din trecut. (...) Otravita sau nu, mercurul ma face sa gandesc astfel. Daca-i dati drumul, va tremura in clone pe toata podea.. | mercury soul | Jeanette Winterson | |
| f20f05f | Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'. | shopping | Jeanette Winterson | |
| cf09360 | Witchery popery popery witchery - all the same thing. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| cbb135b | The dark forest looked on fire. The trees were lit up like funeral pyres. She thought she saw bodies strapped to the trees, burning, burning, burning. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| be48790 | The point about food is that a lot of it used to be left-overs and recycling. | Jeanette Winterson |