"As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self."

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Source : Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

Jen Hatmaker

#Jesus Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.”
“I am who I am, a Southie.”
“If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!”
“He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.”

Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.99, Transaction Publishers
“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.”
“Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong”
“What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.”
“I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.”

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