"We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God."

-- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#Christian Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Organization Quotes

“Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.”
“I don't think I have a signature.”
“Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.”
“Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.”
“And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures”
“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.”
“He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.”
“The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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