"Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives."

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Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins

Mike Yaconelli

#Letting Go Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Arise, soldiers of Christ, throw away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”
“I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.”
“In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.”

Source : William Strunk, Jr. (1972). “The Elements of Style”
“Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.”
“The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen”
“Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.”
“Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.”
“Whether I praise or criticize someone's action, I imply that I am their judge, that I'm engaged in rating them or what they have done.”

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