"God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable."

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Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

Shane Claiborne

#Comfort Quotes #Disturbed Quotes

“Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...”
“And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?”
“The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.”
“If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.”
“At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.”
“We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.”

Source : Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.129, Broadview Press
“Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.”

Source : Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”
“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.”

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