"Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?"

-- Horace Bushnell

#Sacrifice Quotes #Order Quotes #Evil Quotes

“It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.”
“The pieces that have survived, the ones that we all love, were not all popular in their time. Just look at Beethoven's late string quartets. The music that the musical community selects, however, is usually the very best.”
“Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.”
“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”
“Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.”
“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.”
“God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.”

Source : Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books
“Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door.”

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