"Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who."

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Source : FaceBook post by Margaret Feinberg from Nov 25, 2012

Margaret Feinberg

#Missing Quotes #Asking Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.”
“Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.”

Source : "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.
“The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.”
“Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.”
“I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.”
“You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing.”
“If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.”
“For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves. But at the same time environments (nature and other people) are active in the making of organisms. In many respects each one of these elements, organism and environment, form part of one another.”

Source : Peter Dickens (1992). “Society and Nature: Towards a Green Social Theory”, p.15, Temple University Press

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