"Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses"

-- Francis Chan

#Jesus Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Said Quotes

“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”
“Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.”
“It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.”
“I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.”
“Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.”
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

Source : Testament of a Critic bk. 1 (1931)
“It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.”
“The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.”

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