"The ministry of Christianity is the ministry of the Spirit. It is the Spirit of God that inhabits the words, that speaks to the spirit of another and reveals Christ in and through him."

-- John G. Lake

#Ministry Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Speak Quotes

“What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.”
“Quittingâ€™s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.â€ â€œReally? Was that how you quit me?”
“I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.”
“The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.”
“It was always exciting, but it was also always dangerous. And fear takes a toll finally: when you live in danger from moment to moment, the constant tension becomes very wearying. Every step I took on the roads of Gelderland was nerve-wracking, because I was secretly carrying the very material that could turn out to be my own death warrant.”
“Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2015
“Before I could talk, I would try to sing.”
“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

Source : Tasha Alexander (2009). “And Only to Deceive”, p.2, Harper Collins

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