"We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them."

-- Roland Allen

#Christian Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Since peace is alone in the gift of God; and since it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.”
“Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.”
“The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.”

Source : 1833 Last Essays of Elia,'Confessions of a Drunkard'.
“The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.”
“But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons.”
“I don't leave my house - I don't care if it's raining or scorching hot out - without a face cream with a minimum of SPF 15, if not more.”
“When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?”
“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”

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