"Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own."

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Bryan Chapell

#Heart Quotes #Grace Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural selection's most successful hoaxes ever-and smile at the sheer ingenuity involved in pulling it off, at the very thought of such mindless cleverness. One can still enjoy the illusion of God, after all, without believing Him to be real.”

Source : Jesse Bering (2013). “The God Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny and the Meaning of Life”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
“When I played doctor I played to win.”
“And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.”
“Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.”

Source : "Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product" by Walter A. Shewhart, (p. 8), 1931.
“If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.”
“Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play basketball again, and to be part of that whole magnificent Olympic experience. It's a memory I will always cherish.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

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