"[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death."

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C. S. Lewis

#Mean Quotes #Self Quotes #Training Quotes

“God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.”
“Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.”
“A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.”
“We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.”

Source : "'The League' Bosses on the Final Season and Their Best Draft Concept Yet". Interview with Dave McCoy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 9, 2015.
“Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.”
“After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience â€œheaven on earthâ€.”
“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

Source : Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan
“I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.”

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