"We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it."

-- R. C. Sproul

#Running Quotes #Desire Quotes #Theology Quotes

“Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.”
“I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
“Theyâ€™d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and theyâ€™d still blame you.”
“You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.”
“It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.”
“[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”
“Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”
“Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.”

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