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Jim Palmer

"Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we donâ€™t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again."

Source : Jim Palmer (2012). “Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (Whoever and Wherever You Are)”, p.119, iUniverse

Jim Palmer

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“If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are.”
“The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a god that is not sovereign. Soren Kierkegaard argued that the moment one decides to become a Christian, one is liable to idolatry.”
“People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.”
“We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.”

Source : Paul Torday, Susan Howe (2008). “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night.”

Source : "Prozac Nation". Book by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 1994.
“Yes, the more successful you areâ€”or the stronger, the more opinionatedâ€”the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think youâ€™re too braggy, too loud, too something. But the trade-off is undoubtedly worth it. Power and authenticity are worth it.”
“In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.”
“Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.”

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