"Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#Motivational Quotes #Expression Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.”
“Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.”
“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.”
“I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.”
“There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.”
“It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the account of the creation of Adam and Eve is tied in with the rest of the historical narrative in the book of Genesis, so also this account of the fall of man, which follows the history of man's creation, is presented by the author as straightforward, narrative history”

Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2012). “Sin and Atonement: A Zondervan Digital Short”, p.9, Zondervan
“Life makes concessions for no one; it's up to each of us to learn from our experiences; laugh; cry; scream; shout; do whatever it takes to let it out; the important thing is to get it out...move on...and live life...life waits for no one either.”
“The definition of love is giving.”

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