"As long as you and I understand salvation as checking off a box to get to God, we will find ourselves in the meaningless sea of world religions that actually condemn the human race by exalting our supposed ability to get to God. On the other hand, when you and I realize that we are morally evil, dead in sin and deserving of God's wrath with no way out on our own, we begin to discover our desperation for Christ."

-- David Platt

#Wrath Quotes #Race Quotes #Hands Quotes

“The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.”

Source : Lawrence Kushner (1999). “Honey from the Rock”, p.32, Jewish Lights Publishing
“I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.”
“I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.”
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
“To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.55, Multnomah
“Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.”

Source : Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”
“Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.”

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