"In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be."

-- Cornelius Plantinga

#Mean Quotes #Doors Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.”
“When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.”

Source : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.”
“Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'”
“You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.”
“Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one.”
“At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.11, Penguin
“I'm not the beautiful one.”

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