"It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult."

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Oswald Chambers

#Jesus Quotes #Cost Quotes #Insult Quotes

“Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?”
“I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'”
“The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.”
“For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.”
“The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark”
“I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.”
“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigerâ€™s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life â€“ of my grandfatherâ€™s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK
“Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.”

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