"Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion..."

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Source : "The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is". Book by N. T. Wright, 1999.

N. T. Wright

#Christian Quotes #Healing Quotes #Our World Quotes

“No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.”
“Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster
“There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.”
“Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.”
“One day, I remember it was in television. I was a fan of the Rolling Stones. One of the members, the guitarist, had died from an overdose of drugs. I cried tears â€“ my model had died. After this, an exciting new group, the Radha Krishna Temple, came on and sang the Hare Krishna mantra. I immediately felt deep solace.”
“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”
“It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, theyâ€™ll go find someone elseâ€™s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think itâ€™s more interesting to get to know the person myself.”
“When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .”

Source : Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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