"My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in Godâ€™s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ."

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Source : J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.55, B&H Publishing Group

J. D. Greear

#Spiritual Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a huge fan and I get it. I wasn't initially a punk-rock fan. Now, I can appreciate what they stood for and who they were.”
“With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?”
“There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!”
“About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.”

Source : "Are Microbes The Next Frontier?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 12, 2014.
“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.”
“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.”
“No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.”
“Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.”

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