"The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time."

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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.58, Baker Books

Alan Hirsch

#Impact Quotes #Safety Quotes #Profound Quotes

“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.”
“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.”
“I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.”

Source : William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.91, tredition
“I need to get back to work,â€ Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. â€œKiller skirt. Deadly legs.”
“Sin may then be defined ultimately as anything in the creature which does not express, or which is contrary to, the holy character of the Creator”
“... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do itâ€”SOME.”

Source : Eleanor Porter (2003). “Pollyanna”, ePenguin
“You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.”

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