"Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give you a fearless heart where he can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let him transform you by his love and so enable you to receive his affection in your whole being."

-- Henri Nouwen

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“People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry.”
“You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.”
“God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
“I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”
“People are being more Âexperimental. I hear chords being played that really haven't been on the radio. I love that. I go to my kids' school and see kids playing in bands. It is a sign of what's to come.”
“No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life”
“A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”

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