"If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building."

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Source : John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

John Ortberg

#Love Quotes #Community Quotes #Age Quotes

“We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.”
“All beauty contains darkness.”

Source : Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.42, Granta Books
“God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.”
“I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.”
“Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.”
“Peopleâ€™s feelings are easily swayed. The things reflected in peopleâ€™s eyes are full of deception. Nothing is as it appears.”

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