"We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us."

-- J. I. Packer

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“Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.”

Source : "Sources of World Civilization: Since 1500". Book by Oliver A. Johnson, 1993.
“I love cooking and baking.”
“Our whole goal is really to create a culture of accountability. Because for a very long time, ending sexual assault has been on the backs of survivors. And it's really up to everyone to be part of the solution. It's really about not creating a culture of awareness. It's something I often tell parents of kids who are going off to college: It's about asking those hard questions when your kids are applying to school and encouraging them to ask about their rights, to ask about their resources.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.”
“When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.”
“What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.”
“Human science is an uncertain guess.”

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