"The Spirit is not given to make Bible study needless, but to make it effective."

-- J. I. Packer

#Spirit Quotes #Study Quotes #Given Quotes

“Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is...Are we focusing on what really matters?”
“And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.”
“Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.”
“God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Pour in the sunshine about them in youth. Let them be happy, encourage all innocent joy, provide pleasant games for them, romp and play with them; be a child again among them. Then God's blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.”
“Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.”

Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.”
“We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ...”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.166, Soft Skull Press
“In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.”

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