"We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future."

-- John Piper

#Gratitude Quotes #Past Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.”
“I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.”
“You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.”
“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”
“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
“If Brad Pitt walked down the street, cars would crash into each other. I'm really lucky not to have to deal with that.”
“Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.”

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