"My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointements, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking HIm for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems."

-- Catherine Marshall

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“A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.”
“Give other Christians permission to be different from you. You're not the only Christ-follower in the world, and neither are you the most committed. Your way of loving Jesus is neither the only way for the best. If you don't know that, your Christian world is way too small.”

Source : Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.101, Revell
“As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.”
“Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.”

Source : Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.49, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.”

Source : Source: susiebright.blogs.com
“I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichÃ©d situations.”
“I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.”
“I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.”

Source : "Prison Bound". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2000.

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