"When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it."

-- Carolyn Hax

#Mean Quotes #Failing Quotes #Hiding Quotes

“My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.”
“All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.”
“We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.”
“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior.”

Source : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.109, Baker Academic
“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
“When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.”
“All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.”

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