"Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him."

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Source : Twitter post from Jan 11, 2014

Mark Driscoll

#Effort Quotes #Today Quotes #Suits Quotes

“u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.”
“Love and violence-not to conquer one with the other but to live with both, that's what I've learned. Each pulling me a different way. If I relax my struggles they don't tear me in two, but lift me up.”
“On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.”
“If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.”

Source : "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.
“I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.”
“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”

Source : Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“You were the leaves, basking in the sunlight. I was the root, growing in the darkness ~Danzo”
“One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.”

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