"A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls."

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Source : Larry Crabb (2005). “Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships”, p.112, Thomas Nelson Inc

Larry Crabb

#Leadership Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.”
“Forgiveness is constructed in the DNA of the persecuted. One Egyptian pastor this spring delivered a sermon titled, "A Message to Those Who Kill Us." In it he quoted Jesus, declaring the fact that the church would refuse to hate the terrorists, but would instead forgive them, pray for them, and love them. This is one of the reasons why so many terrorists are coming to Jesus.”
“It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs”
“Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.”
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”

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“I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.”
“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
“Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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