"I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go."

-- Masha Tupitsyn

#Letting Go Quotes #People Quotes #Have Faith Quotes

“Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.”
“I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.”
“Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2013). “The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church”, p.93, Baker Books
“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.”
“One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.41, Columbia University Press
“It would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something,”
“Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence, without you moving, slicing the noon like a blue flower, without you walking later through the fog and the cobbles, without the light you carry in your hand, golden, which maybe others will not see, which maybe no one knew was growing like the red beginnings of a rose. In short, without your presence: without your coming suddenly, incitingly, to know my life, gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind: since then I am because you are, since then you are, I am, we are, and through love I will be, you will be, we will be.”
“If you have worry, you don't have faith, and if you have faith, you don't have worry.”

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