"Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Discovery Quotes #Painful Quotes #Theological Quotes

“Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.”
“There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.”
“To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.”
“I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency ...”

Source : "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.
“Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began to call up memories of places, people, events, food-anything I could do to occupy my mind and remind myself that, even if I was being treated like an animal, I was still a living breathing human being.”
“I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.”
“We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.”
“Green exercise improves psychological health.”

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