"The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide."

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Source : Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.31, WaterBrook

Larry Crabb

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“[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.”
“Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we come back to a place of self-love and understand the journey more - that we have come here just to have a series of experiences to learn from and that we need not do it all perfectly.”
“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”
“In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.”
“If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.”
“America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.”
“All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.”
“In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.”

Source : Emory University Commencement Address, delivered 16 May 2005

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