"Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church."

-- Alan Hirsch

#Thinking Quotes #Dying Quotes #Church Quotes

“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”

Source : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those...prayers were destined to affect...we would be so paralyzed with awe...that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.”
“Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.”
“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”
“Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.”
“Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.”
“Being a doctor, I worry that the patient may be uncomfortable about sharing something. It could be sexual dysfunction, an eating disorder, depression, domestic violence - these are serious topics many people don't want to talk about. I'll try to follow up with questions like: How are things at home? How's work? But we don't always have time to probe. Don't be afraid to bring up the important things going on in your life, even if they don't feel 'medical.' Your doctor would rather know than not know.”

Source : Source: www.oprah.com
“For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.”

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