"You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament in a way that entailed getting good stuff, material stuff, and having a deep relationship with God. There was no contradiction. And the idea just moves forward from there."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Anthony B Pinn

#Moving Quotes #Contradiction Quotes #Relationship With God Quotes

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.”
“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Forgiveness isn't always a one-time thing. There are layers of it that need to be recognized in any situation -especially in a marriage. Sometimes we think we have forgiven, but we don't realize how many layers there are. And if we don't deal with each layer, hardness of heart can set in and build up to monumental proportions.”
“I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.”

Source : "After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell". Book by Norman Angell, 1951.
“I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.”
“If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.”
“Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.”
“The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.”

Source : Joanna Southcott (1810). “The prophecies of Joanna Southcott, relating to the dreadful judgments that will fall on this nation in the present year, 1810. Selected and animadverted on by R. Hann”, p.11

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