"I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God."

-- Rachel Held Evans

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“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
“To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.”

Source : Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library
“With real wages still falling for many, people are increasingly being forced to use their credit cards, their dwindling savings, or take out payday or doorstep loans if they need to buy anything beyond the most everyday of items.”

Source : "Cost of living crisis: We are £40 a week worse off under the Tories" by Stephen Hayward, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.
“The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.”
“We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.”
“I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.”
“For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.”

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