"Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside."

-- Gram Parsons

#Song Quotes #Religious Quotes #Jesus Quotes

“When I was younger, I would eat everything.”
“In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.”
“He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.”
“[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...”
“There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.164, Penguin
“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spiritâ€”-to the â€œconquestâ€ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
“It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.”

Source : Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan
“I'm not politically correct.”

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