"When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's."

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Timothy Keller

#Mean Quotes #Idols Quotes #People Quotes

“Grace can and does have a history.”
“There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.”
“It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.”
“I'm in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, literally, like Sarah Palin will come up in like the first 20 minutes, and that doesn't put me in the mood. Like, talking about Sarah Palin. And they just want to know gossip, and I'm just kind of taking a little hiatus from dating right now, because I just don't want to talk about Sarah Palin.”
“The loving are the daring.”
“There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."”
“People need all the good memories they can keep with them in this world; they're a sort of steering apparatus in a life-boat ...”

Source : Marah Ellis Ryan (1891). “Told in the Hills”, p.146, Library of Alexandria
“Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.”

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