"Jesus cares more about desire than about competence"

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Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.25, Harper Collins

Mike Yaconelli

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“Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.”
“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”
“At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually - I regret not doing that.”
“Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and brown shell. "That's a very interesting pet." "And those are very interesting shorts." His gaze dropped. "What are they?" Leaning forward his eyes narrowed and I stiffened. "Pizza slices?" Heat swamped my cheeks. "They're ice cream cones." "Huh. I like them." Straightening, his gaze drifted up me slowly, leaving an unfamiliar wake of heat behind. "A lot.”
“We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.”

Source : "What makes me proud to be an American" by Brian Kilmeade, www.foxnews.com. July 1, 2014.
“Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.”
“The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.”
“My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.”

Source : "Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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