"Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any attention to the ethical implications of what their faith should mean in how they lived. They believed God had given them their land. He had. But they had not lived in it in either gratitude or obedience. They had not fulfilled any of the conditions that Deuteronomy had made so clear."

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Christopher J. H. Wright

#Gratitude Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.”
“Kids kill a show! It's, like, a fun concept when the character is pregnant, but then if a show runs for a while, I'm sorry, but it gets annoying when it starts to talk. You get a child actor in there, and unless that child actor is freakin' awesome, it's going to be annoying.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn now to win one”
“I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.”
“Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”
“If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.224, A&C Black
“Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.”

Source : Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press
“There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.”

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