"The trouble today is that many Christians live in a kind of bubble of assumptions about what their Christianity means, especially if it places them comfortably among "the good guys," - assumptions that are likely to be drawn as much from folk-Christianity, surrounding political culture, popular pulp-books about the "End Times," or their favourite guru writer or therapist, than from sober and comprehensive reading of the Bible as a whole. Prophets and preachers have the unwelcome task of pricking that bubble with the sharpness of actual texts and teachings of the Bible itself."

Source : Source: www.patheos.com

Christopher J. H. Wright

#Christian Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.”
“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
“If I really think about what drove me from the beginning to become a designer, it is really the idea of trying to make everyday life a little bit better - to make it more functional, more desirable, to improve quality of life somehow.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.”
“My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.”

Source : "Alison Eastwood: Growing up in Hollywood, keeping grounded, and helping animals in need". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.”
“Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.”
“If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.1, "An Unearthly Child"), 23 November - 14 December, 1963.

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