"To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all."

-- Murray Kempton

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Fashionable Quotes

“It makes my head explode when there are people who think you can do everything in HTML.”
“The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.”
“Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.”
“A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.”
“You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.”
“You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.”
“Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.”

Source : John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.40, Whitaker House
“Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?”

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