"Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive."

-- Gabrielle

#Children Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.”
“So relational evangelism?Â Go for it, as long as it turns into real evangelism.Â You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what weâ€™re called to do.Â Youâ€™re eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel.Â When the pure gospel is shared, people respond.”
“The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.”
“My history's not very good, but did David win?”
“My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.”
“One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.”
“The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.”
“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

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