"Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life."

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Leland Ryken

#Stress Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Withdrawal Quotes

“All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.”
“When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.”
“They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.”
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
“The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.”
“As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.”
“The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.”
“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.”

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