"If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God."

-- J. D. Greear

#Want Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Word Of God Quotes

“There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.”
“I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.”
“Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.”
“I wake up some mornings hating me too.”
“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.”
“You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.”
“There's something about sober living and sober thinking, about facing long afternoons without the numbing distraction of anesthesia that disabuses you of the belief in the externals, shows you that strength and hope come not from circumstances or the acquisition of things, but from the simple accumulation of active experience, from gritting the teeth and checking the items off the list, one by one, even if it's painful and you're afraid.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.108, Dial Press
“I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn't eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.”

You may also like:

Daniel L. Akin
Author
David Platt
Pastor
Ed Stetzer
Author
Francis Chan
Pastor
John Piper
Author
Mark Dever
Pastor
Matt Chandler
Pastor
Matt Papa
Singer-songwriter
Timothy Keller
Author