"Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ."

-- Pope John Paul II

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“Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.”
“I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.”
“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.”

Source : Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”
“This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“The novelist's--any writer's--object is to whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, isfatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. HeÂ´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.”
“God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.”

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