"Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need."

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Source : Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins

Carolyn Custis James

#Responsibility Quotes #Office Quotes #Church Quotes

“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 146, 1989.
“There is no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.”
“The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."”
“Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice in Veer-Zaara(2004). It's a very intense, humane and emotional story. Veer-Zaara (2004) is a humble tribute to my home in Punjab. It's my tribute to the one-ness of people on both sides of the border. Every religion preaches peace. Then why the bloodshed for the sake of religion? Why are we destroying each other?.”
“May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.”
“At the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals: Win today and we walk together forever.”
“...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.”
“One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.”

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