"The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable."

-- Brian D. McLaren

#Ideas Quotes #Grace Quotes #Church Quotes

“A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”
“The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.”
“I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think they were geniuses of their time.”
“The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. Weâ€™ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”
“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?”
“God will bless you and your marriage when you follow His blueprint.”

Source : Jim George (2016). “A Husband After God's Own Heart: 12 Things That Really Matter in Your Marriage”, p.13, Harvest House Publishers
“For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.”
“...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.”

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