"I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story."

-- Donald Miller

#Mean Quotes #Tree Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?”
“I want John Legend to sing at my wedding.”
“We have the power to change our lives, and the world around us.”
“The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.”
“The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.”
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
“Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Bookâ€™s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. Whatâ€™s that if itâ€™s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!”
“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”

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