David W Augsburger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
-- David W Augsburger

#Happiness #Meaningful #Sacrifice
An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.
-- David W Augsburger

#Communication #Heart #Ears
The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
-- David W Augsburger

#Friendship #Real #Golden
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us.
-- David W Augsburger

#Running #Differences #Trying
Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out...
-- David W Augsburger

#Pain #Forgiving #Injury
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.
-- David W Augsburger

#Happiness #Feelings #Purpose
Happiness is living by inner purpose.
-- David W Augsburger

#Happiness #Purpose
Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.
-- David W Augsburger

#Country #Countries Of The World #Diversity
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
-- David W Augsburger

#Chocolate #Doe #Sense Of Humor
The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.
-- David W Augsburger

#Men #Evil #Forgiving
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
-- David W Augsburger

#Integrity #Commitment #Past
If chocolate is a foretaste of heaven, what does it mean that chocolate is freely available to all?
-- David W Augsburger

#Mean #Heaven #Chocolate

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