"Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Duncan Green

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Every time we turn to Christ in faith it is like a moment of Sabbath, a little foretaste of eternal rest and glory. The gift of that moment lies not in what we do but what we receive. It is the holy time set aside to receive the greatest gift of God ever has to give, which is himself, in his own beloved Son.”

Source : Phillip Cary (2010). “Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You Don't Have to Do”, p.195, Baker Books
“The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.”
“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”
“There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow”
“What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.”
“I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US.”

Source : "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Konnor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.
“What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.”
“I've never had to talk about my work, nobody's given a damn about it - you know, what I thought. I find that I sort of like that, to get to keep it to myself. It's a bit bizarre.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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