"If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does."

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Source : Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.112, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

Philip Yancey

#Gratitude Quotes #Great Love Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling”
“The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them continue to shoot people.”
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
“I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.”
“I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.”
“Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." AdhÃ©mar's fiancÃ©e fell, blessedly, silent.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.240, Penguin
“Psychologically, when I sit down at noon, I'm it. I'm the only thing on. Nobody else does what I do. Nobody else has the opportunity. That's the psychological mindset. It's not an ego thing; it's just the way I've always approached it.”

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