"The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin"

-- D. A. Carson

#Heart Quotes #Rights Quotes #Self Quotes

“When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.”
“I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.”
“It only takes a second to score a goal.”

Source : "Boro unworthy of the green jersey" by Jeremy Alexander, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2004.
“We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield
“Our society has got to evolve and create better ways of living.”

Source : "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.”
“Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.”

Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)
“I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.”

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