"Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too."

-- Rob Bell

#Hurt Quotes #Blood Quotes #Sky Quotes

“The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.”
“Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.”
“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”

Source : Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.304, John Wiley & Sons
“Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.”
“I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that.”
“You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.”
“I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.”
“The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some difficult or puzzling situation, God reminds me of a Scripture passage I have read. And it makes all the difference.”

Source : Ann Spangler (2006). “Praying the Names of Jesus: A Daily Guide”, p.155, Harper Collins

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