"The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice."

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Andrea Dworkin

#Essence Quotes #Choices Quotes #Oppression Quotes

“Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.”
“All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”
“Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart....”

Source : Ken Keyes, Jr. (2010). “Three Prescriptions for Happiness”, p.84, Axios Press
“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
“In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”
“When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.”
“When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.”
“Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.”

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