"Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural."

-- Ted Dekker

#Essence Quotes

“I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.”
“Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.”
“A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!”
“The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.”
“The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.”
“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”
“I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.”
“This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.”

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