"Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace."

-- Brennan Manning

#Grace Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.”
“Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”
“Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.”
“There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.”
“Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.”

Source : Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.
“A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.”
“Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”
“The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'”

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