"The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities."

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Source : Source: www.patheos.com

Christopher J. H. Wright

#Reality Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.”
“Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.”
“The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
“Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.”
“I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.”
“I don't know nothing about nothing.”

Source : "If You Come Softly". Book by Jacqueline Woodson. Chapter 8, p. 88, 1998.
“A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.”
“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.”

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