"Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him."

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Source : Jerry Bridges (2014). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, p.106, Tyndale House

Jerry Bridges

#Bored Quotes #Important Quotes #Dull Quotes

“Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.”
“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”

Source : Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.371
“Let us learn to dream again. To learn to dream again is to have big plans. To learn to dream again is to readjust, to look to God.”
“Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.”

Source : Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.
“My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.”
“Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm worried about those who disappeared. I don't know anything about them now. They just disappeared like that after the war started, while I was living in the United States.”
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”

Source : "Fictional character: William Hundert". The Emperor's Club, www.imdb.com. 2002.
“I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.”

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