"Jesus wanted far more than to be accepted into one's life.Â He wanted to take over, and his essential call was to trust him enough to surrender one's entire being to him."

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Source : Scot McKnight (2010). “One.Life: Jesus Calls, We Follow”, p.24, Zondervan

Scot McKnight

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“Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.”
“It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.”
“Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money”
“I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. So I thought that I knew quite a bit about Judy Garland, but I read in passing that the Stonewall riots were a reaction to her death and I had never really read enough to know what that meant or how that could be true. I was interested in that I knew so much about Judy Garland, but I really didn't know this story.”

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“Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211
“There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.”
“I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.”
“You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.”

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