"If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Ordinary Quotes #Creation Quotes #Sabbath Quotes

“When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.”
“The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.”
“Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.”
“What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.”
“Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.”
“The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.”
“As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.”

Source : Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.92, arsenal pulp press
“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”

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