"The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ."

-- John Flavel

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“The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.”
“None of us are either all good or all bad â€“ weâ€™re all somewhere in between â€“ but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the darkâ€¦”

Source : Joseph Delaney (2008). “The Spook's Curse”, p.283, Random House
“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”
“This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. â€¦ In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent itâ€™s an idealized order Iâ€™m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.”
“Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.”
“True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.”
“Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.”

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