"We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts."

-- Larry Crabb

#Pain Quotes #Heart Quotes #Giving Quotes

“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
“I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.”
“Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.”
“I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.”

Source : "Ethiopia, the United States and the Soviet Union". Book by David A. Korn, 1986.
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.”
“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. What scares you, is not your weaknesses, but your strengths.”
“I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.”
“I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.”

Source : "Whale Talk". Book by Chris Crutcher, 2001.

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